Verb

(conclud)

To end; to come to an end.

The story concluded with a moral.

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

* Francis Bacon

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

To bring about as a result; to effect; to make.

to conclude a bargain

* Shakespeare

if we conclude a peace

To come to a conclusion, to a final decision.

From the evidence, I conclude that this man was murdered.

* Tillotson

No man can 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.

* Addison

But no frail man, however great or high, / Can be concluded blest before he die.

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.

* Sir M. Hale

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

(obsolete) To shut up; to enclose.

* Hooker

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

(obsolete) To include; to comprehend; to shut up together; to embrace.

* Bible, Romans xi. 32

For God hath concluded all in unbelief.

* Bible, Gal. iii. 22

The Scripture hath concluded all under sin.

(logic) to deduce, to infer (develop a causal relation)

Verb

(en verb)

To declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively.

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he would often assert his beliefs to us

To use or exercise and thereby prove the existence of.

to assert one's authority

Salman Rushdie has asserted his right ... to be identified as the author of this work

To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to; as, to assert our rights and liberties.

The quasi-judicial pre-grant process of asserting patent rights and appeals procedures during patent examination; 'to assert' patent rights means to defend or maintain patent rights.

(computer science) To make true; to make equal to 1. (rfex)