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

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

Bacon.

6. To bring about as a result; to effect; to make; as, to conclude a bargain. "If we conclude a peace." Shak.

7. 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.

Con*clude", v. i. 1. 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.

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