conclude
English
Etymology
From Middle English concluden, borrowed from Latin conclūdere (“to shut up, close, end”), present active infinitive of conclūdō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kən.ˈkluːd/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -uːd
Verb
conclude (third-person singular simple present concludes, present participle concluding, simple past and past participle concluded)
- (intransitive) To end; to come to an end.
- The story concluded with a moral.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:
- 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.
- (transitive) To bring to an end; to close; to finish.
- a. 1627 (date written), Francis [Bacon], “Considerations Touching a VVarre vvith Spaine. […]”, in William Rawley, editor, Certaine Miscellany VVorks of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount S. Alban. […], London: […] I. Hauiland for Humphrey Robinson, […], published 1629, OCLC 557721855:
- I will conclude this part with the speech of a counsellor of state.
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- (transitive) To bring about as a result; to effect; to make.
- to conclude a bargain
- 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene iv]:
- if we conclude a peace
- (transitive) To come to a conclusion, to a final decision.
- From the evidence, I conclude that this man was murdered.
- a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Advantages of Religion to Societies
- No man can certainly conclude God's love or hatred to any person by anything that befalls him.
- (obsolete) To make a final determination or judgment concerning; to judge; to decide.
- 1717, Joseph Addison, Metamorphoses
- But no frail man, however great or high, / Can be concluded blest before he die.
- 1717, Joseph Addison, Metamorphoses
- To shut off; to restrain; to limit; to estop; to bar; generally in the passive.
- The defendant is concluded by his own plea.
- A judgment concludes the introduction of further evidence.
- a. 1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, OCLC 42005461:
- If therefore they will appeal to revelation for their creation they must be concluded by it.
- (obsolete) To shut up; to enclose.
- 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, J[ohn] S[penser], editor, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, OCLC 931154958, (please specify the page):
- The very person of Christ [was] concluded within the grave.
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- (obsolete) To include; to comprehend; to shut up together; to embrace; to confine.
- 1601, Ben Jonson, The Poetaster, Act IV, Scene VIII originally but Scene VII in Gifford’s 1816 edition volume II page 493:
- 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.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Romans 11:32:
- For God hath concluded all in unbelief.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Galatians 3:22:
- The Scripture hath concluded all under sin.
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- (logic) to deduce, to infer (develop a causal relation)
Antonyms
- (to end): begin, initiate, start, commence
Derived terms
Derived terms
- concludable
- concluder
- conclusible
Related terms
- conclusion
- conclusive
- disclude
- include
- occlude
- preclude
Translations
to end
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to come to a final decision
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develop a causal relation
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Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /konˈklu.de/
- Rhymes: -ude
- Hyphenation: con‧clù‧de
Verb
conclude
- third-person singular present indicative of concludere
Latin
Verb
conclūde
- second-person singular present active imperative of conclūdō
Piedmontese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kuŋˈklyde/
Verb
conclude
- to conclude
Romanian
Etymology
From Latin concludere or Italian concludere.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /konˈklu.de/
Verb
a conclude (third-person singular present conclude, past participle conclus) 3rd conj.
- to conclude
Conjugation
conjugation of conclude (third conjugation, past participle in -s)
| infinitive | a conclude | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | concluzând | ||||||
| past participle | conclus | ||||||
| number | singular | plural | |||||
| person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |
| indicative | eu | tu | el/ea | noi | voi | ei/ele | |
| present | conclud | concluzi | conclude | concludem | concludeți | conclud | |
| imperfect | concludeam | concludeai | concludea | concludeam | concludeați | concludeau | |
| simple perfect | conclusei | concluseși | concluse | concluserăm | concluserăți | concluseră | |
| pluperfect | conclusesem | concluseseși | conclusese | concluseserăm | concluseserăți | concluseseră | |
| subjunctive | eu | tu | el/ea | noi | voi | ei/ele | |
| present | să conclud | să concluzi | să concludă | să concludem | să concludeți | să concludă | |
| imperative | — | tu | — | — | voi | — | |
| affirmative | conclude | concludeți | |||||
| negative | nu conclude | nu concludeți | |||||
Further reading
- conclude in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)