conclude

Etymology

From Middle English concluden, borrowed from Latin conclūdere (“to shut up, close, end”), present active infinitive of conclūdō.

verb

1. (intransitive) 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. 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
2. (transitive) To bring to an end; to close; to finish.
3. (transitive) To bring about as a result; to effect; to make.
   to conclude a bargain
4. (transitive) 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. a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Advantages of Religion to Societies
5. (obsolete) 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. 1717, Joseph Addison, Metamorphoses
6. 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.
7. (obsolete) To shut up; to enclose.
8. (obsolete) 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. 1601, Ben Jonson, The Poetaster, act IV, scene VIII originally but scene VII in Gifford’s 1816 edition volume II, page 493
9. (logic) to deduce, to infer (develop a causal relation)