conclude

verb

Etymology: From Middle English concluden, borrowed from Latin conclūdere (“to shut up, close, end”).

1. To end; to come to an end.

   “The story concluded with a moral.”

   “He inveighed against the folly of making oneself liable for the debts of others; vented many bitter execrations against the brother; and concluded with wishing something could be done for the unfortunate family.”

2. To bring to an end; to close; to finish.

   “I will conclude this part with the speech of a counsellor of state.”

3. To bring about as a result; to effect; to make.

   “to conclude a bargain”

   “if we conclude a peace”

4. To come to a conclusion, to a final decision.

   “From the evidence, I conclude that this man was murdered.”

   “No man can certainly conclude God's love or hatred to any person by anything that befalls him.”

5. To make a final determination or judgment concerning; to judge; to decide.

   “But no frail man, however great or high, / Can be concluded blest before he die.”

6. To shut off; to restrain; to limit; to estop; to bar.

   “The defendant is concluded by his own plea.”

   “A judgment concludes the introduction of further evidence.”

7. To shut up; to enclose.

   “The very person of Christ [was] concluded within the grave.”

8. To include; to comprehend; to shut up together; to embrace; to confine.

   “Banisht the Court? Let me be banisht Life; Since the chief end of Life is there concluded: Within the Court is all the Kingdom bounded, And as her sacred Sphear doth comprehend Ten thousand times so much, as so much Place In any part of all the Empire else; So every Body, moving in her Sphear, Contains Ten thousand times as much in him, As any other, her choice Orb excludes.”

   “For God hath concluded all in unbelief.”

9. to deduce, to infer (develop a causal relation)