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

(es)

To make stable or firm; to confirm.

*

To form; to found; to institute; to set up in business.

* , (w) 6:18

But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.

To appoint or adopt, as officers, laws, regulations, guidelines, etc.; to enact; to ordain.

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To prove and cause to be accepted as true; to establish a fact; to demonstrate.