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Conclude   /kənklˈud/   Listen
Conclude

verb
(past & past part. concluded; pres. part. concluding)
1.
Decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion.  Synonyms: reason, reason out.
2.
Bring to a close.
3.
Reach a conclusion after a discussion or deliberation.  Synonym: resolve.
4.
Come to a close.  Synonym: close.
5.
Reach agreement on.  "We concluded a cease-fire"






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"Conclude" Quotes from Famous Books



... conclude?" said Rastignac, with that curtness of speech which to a prolix speaker is a warning ...
— The Deputy of Arcis • Honore de Balzac

... against whom Origen wrote is the friend to whom Lucian has addressed his life of the magician Alexander of Abonoteichus. The arguments on this question are stated and weighed in Neander's Kirchengeschichte, vol. i. 169, and Baur's Geschichte der drei ersten Jahrhunderte, p. 371. Both conclude that the persons were different. The evidence of their oneness is chiefly Origen's conjecture that they were the same person (Cont. Celsum. iv. 36.) The evidence against it is, (1) that Lucian's friend attacked magical rites; the Celsus of Origen seems to have believed them; (2) that ...
— History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion • Adam Storey Farrar

... Here then I conclude: I must say, adieu! Yet can I not do so before I again assure you that if perchance I may have lightened an hour of your solitude, you, my kind friends, have made happy whole weeks and days of ...
— Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 (of 2) • Charles Lever

... madame,' answered my father trembling, 'fourteen days ago I presented a petition to the king.' 'And have you received no answer yet?' she asked quickly. 'I see you every day here with the lad there, and conclude you are still hoping for an answer.' 'So it is, madame,' answered my father, 'I expect an answer, that is I expect a decision involving my life or death.' 'Poor man!' said the queen, with a tone of deep sympathy. 'Fourteen days of such waiting must be dreadful! I pity ...
— Marie Antoinette And Her Son • Louise Muhlbach

... those characters of unanimity and frenzy, which were displayed by the acclamations, that had accompanied him from the gulf of Juan to the gates of Paris. It would be a mistake, however, to infer, that the Parisians did not behold the return of Napoleon with pleasure. We must only conclude, therefore, that the Emperor missed the proper time for ...
— Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I • Pierre Antoine Edouard Fleury de Chaboulon


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