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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CONCLUSION, n. [L.]
1. End; close; the last part; as the conclusion of an address.
2. The close of an argument, debate or reasoning; inference that ends the discussion; final result.
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter; fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole of man. Ecclesiastes 12.
3. Determination; final decision.
After long debate, the house of commons came to this conclusion.
4. Consequence; inference; that which is collected or drawn from premises; particular deduction from propositions, facts, experience, or reasoning.
5. The event of experiments; experiment.
We practice all conclusions of grafting and inoculating. [Little used.]
6. Confinement of the thoughts; silence. [Not used.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration; "a decision unfavorable to the opposition"; "his conclusion took the evidence into account"; "satisfied with the panel's determination" [syn: decision, determination, conclusion]
2: an intuitive assumption; "jump to a conclusion"
3: the temporal end; the concluding time; "the stopping point of each round was signaled by a bell"; "the market was up at the finish"; "they were playing better at the close of the season" [syn: stopping point, finale, finis, finish, last, conclusion, close]
4: event whose occurrence ends something; "his death marked the ending of an era"; "when these final episodes are broadcast it will be the finish of the show" [syn: ending, conclusion, finish] [ant: beginning]
5: the proposition arrived at by logical reasoning (such as the proposition that must follow from the major and minor premises of a syllogism) [syn: conclusion, ratiocination]
6: the act of ending something; "the termination of the agreement" [syn: termination, ending, conclusion]
7: a final settlement; "the conclusion of a business deal"; "the conclusion of the peace treaty"
8: the last section of a communication; "in conclusion I want to say..." [syn: conclusion, end, close, closing, ending]
9: the act of making up your mind about something; "the burden of decision was his"; "he drew his conclusions quickly" [syn: decision, determination, conclusion]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin conclusion-, conclusio, from concludere Date: 14th century 1. a. a reasoned judgment ; inference b. the necessary consequence of two or more propositions taken as premises; especially the inferred proposition of a syllogism 2. the last part of something: as a. result, outcome b. plural trial of strength or skill — used in the phrase try conclusions c. a final summation d. the final decision in a law case e. the final part of a pleading in law 3. an act or instance of concluding

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a final result; a termination. 2 a judgement reached by reasoning. 3 the summing-up of an argument, article, book, etc. 4 a settling; an arrangement (the conclusion of peace). 5 Logic a proposition that is reached from given premisses; the third and last part of a syllogism. Phrases and idioms: in conclusion lastly, to conclude. try conclusions with engage in a trial of skill etc. with. Etymology: ME f. OF conclusion or L conclusio (as conclude)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Conclusion Con*clu"sion, n. [F., fr. L. conclusio. See Conclude.] 1. The last part of anything; close; termination; end. A fluorish of trumpets announced the conclusion of the contest. --Prescott. 2. Final decision; determination; result. And the conclusion is, she shall be thine. --Shak. 3. Any inference or result of reasoning. 4. (Logic) The inferred proposition of a syllogism; the necessary consequence of the conditions asserted in two related propositions called premises. See Syllogism. He granted him both the major and minor, but denied him the conclusion. --Addison. 5. Drawing of inferences. [Poetic] Your wife Octavia, with her modest eyes And still conclusion. --Shak. 6. An experiment, or something from which a conclusion may be drawn. [Obs.] We practice likewise all conclusions of grafting and inoculating. --Bacon. 7. (Law) (a) The end or close of a pleading, e.g., the formal ending of an indictment, ``against the peace,'' etc. (b) An estoppel or bar by which a person is held to a particular position. --Wharton. Conclusion to the country (Law), the conclusion of a pleading by which a party ``puts himself upon the country,'' i.e., appeals to the verdict of a jury. --Mozley & W. In conclusion. (a) Finally. (b) In short. To try conclusions, to make a trial or an experiment. Like the famous ape, To try conclusions, in the basket creep. --Shak. Syn: Inference; deduction; result; consequence; end; decision. See Inference.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(conclusions) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. When you come to a conclusion, you decide that something is true after you have thought about it carefully and have considered all the relevant facts. Over the years I've come to the conclusion that she's a very great musician... I have tried to give some idea of how I feel–other people will no doubt draw their own conclusions. N-COUNT: oft N that 2. The conclusion of something is its ending. At the conclusion of the programme, I asked the children if they had any questions they wanted to ask me. = end N-SING: also no det, usu with supp 3. The conclusion of a treaty or a business deal is the act of arranging it or agreeing it. ...the expected conclusion of a free-trade agreement between Mexico and the United States. N-SING: usu with supp 4. You can refer to something that seems certain to happen as a foregone conclusion. It was a foregone conclusion that I would end up in the same business as him... = certainty PHRASE: oft it v-link PHR that 5. You say 'in conclusion' to indicate that what you are about to say is the last thing that you want to say. In conclusion, walking is a cheap, safe, enjoyable and readily available form of exercise. PHRASE: PHR with cl 6. If you say that someone jumps to a conclusion, you are critical of them because they decide too quickly that something is true, when they do not know all the facts. I didn't want her to jump to the conclusion that the divorce was in any way her fault... PHRASE: V and N inflect, oft PHR that [disapproval]

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

kon-kloo'-zhun (coph): In Ec 12:13 the King James Version, where the Revised Version (British and American) has "the end," namely, a summary of the entire argument of the book.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Deduction, inference. 2. Determination, decision, judgment. 3. Termination, end, completion, upshot, close, finale, issue, event. 4. Settlement, arrangement, establishment.

Moby Thesaurus

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