CONCLUDE, v.t. [L., to shut; Gr., contracted. The sense is to stop, make fast, shut, or rather to thrust together. Hence in Latin, claudo signifies to halt, or limp, that is, to stop, as well as to shut. See Lid.]

1. To infer, as a consequence; to determine. The world will conclude I had a guilty conscience. – Arbuthnot. But this verb is really transitive. The world will conclude that I had a guilty conscience – that is here the object, referring to the subsequent clause of the sentence. [See Verb Transitive, No. 3.]
2. To settle opinion; to form a final judgment. Can we conclude upon Luther's instability, as our author has done. – Atterbury.
3. To end. A train of lies, / That, made in lust, conclude in perjuries. – Dryden. The old form of expression, to conclude of, is no longer in use.

1. To shut. The very person of Christ … was only, touching bodily substance, concluded in the grave. – Hooker. [This use of the word is uncommon.]
2. To include; to comprehend. For God hath concluded them all in unbelief. Rom. xi. The Scripture bath concluded alt under sin. Gal. iii. The meaning of the word in the latter passage may be to declare irrevocably or to doom.
3. To collect by reasoning; to infer, as from premises; to close an argument by inferring. Therefore we conclude, that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. Rom. iii.
4. To decide; to determine; to make a final judgment or determination. As touching the Gentiles who believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing. – Rom. xi.
5. To end; to finish. I will conclude this part with the speech of a counselor of state. – Bacon.
6. To stop or restrain, or as in law, to stop from further argument or proceedings; to oblige or bind, as by authority, or by one's own argument or concession; generally in the passive; as, the defendant is concluded by his own plea. If they will appeal to revelation for their creation, they must be concluded by it. – Hale. I do not consider the decision of that motion, upon affidavits, to amount to a res judicata, which ought to conclude the present inquiry. – Kent.

1. To shut up; to inclose.
   
   
   [Obs.]

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

2. To come to a termination; to make an end; to close; to end; to terminate.
   
   

   A train of lies,
   That, made in lust, conclude in perjuries.
   Dryden.

   And, to conclude,
   The victory fell on us.
   Shak.

3. To include; to comprehend; to shut up together; to embrace.
   
   
   [Obs.]

   For God hath concluded all in unbelief.
   Rom. xi. 32.

   The Scripture hath concluded all under sin.
   Gal. iii. 22.

4. To form a final judgment; to reach a decision.
   
   

   Can we conclude upon Luther's instability?
   Bp. Atterbury.

   Conclude and be agreed.
   Shak.

5. To reach as an end of reasoning; to infer, as from premises; to close, as an argument, by inferring; -- sometimes followed by a dependent clause.
   
   

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

   Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith.
   Rom. iii. 28.

6. 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.
   Addison.

   Is it concluded he shall be protector?
   Shak.

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

   I will conclude this part with the speech of a counselor of state.
   Bacon.

8. To bring about as a result; to effect; to make; as, to conclude a bargain.
   
   
   "If we conclude a peace." Shak.
9. To shut off; to restrain; to limit; to estop; to bar; -- generally in the passive; as, the defendant is concluded by his own plea; a judgment concludes the introduction of further evidence argument.
   
   

   If therefore they will appeal to revelation for their creation they must be concluded by it.
   Sir M. Hale.

   Syn. -- To infer; decide; determine; settle; close; finish; terminate; end.