Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Lexicon: conclude – condescend
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conclude (concluding, -s), v. [L. conclud-ere, to shut up closely, close, end.] (webplay: conscience, decide, figures, houses, justified, last, revelation, touching, true).
- Finish; end; complete.
- Decide; determine; come to an understanding of.
- Cease; die; halt with finality.
concluded, verbal adj. [see conclude, v.] (webplay: finish, make, settle, together, world).
- Finished; completed.
- Enclosed; finite; closed off; shut up.
conclusion, n. [Fr. < L. conclūdere, to conclude.] (webplay: faith, finish, grave, infer, last, make, speech, world).
- Termination; close; completion; resolution; death.
- Decision; deduction; judgment; statement arrived at by reasoning.
conclusive, adj. [late L. conclūsīv-us; see conclude.]
Final; definitive; authoritative; official; fixed; immovable; widely accepted as correct.
concomitant, adj. [L. concomitānt-em.]
Accompanying; attendant; going together.
condemn (-ed), v. [ME < L. condem(p)nāre, condemn, convict, sentence.] (webplay: believeth, sins).
- Sentence; find guilty.
- Damn; doom; relegate to perdition; [fig.] threaten; intimidate.
condemned, verbal adj. [see condemn, v.] (webplay: death, judge, sea).
- Doomed; found guilty.
- Censured; denied.
condense (-s), v. [Fr. < L. condensus, thick, dense; see dense, adj.]
Thicken; collect; settle; gather; come together.
condensed, verbal adj. [see condense, v.]
Concentrated; dense; compact; compressed.
condescend (condescended), v. [Fr. < L. condēscend-ere, stoop; see descend, v.] (webplay: friend, high).
Deign; consent; submit to inferiors; humbly draw near to another; voluntarily descend to a lower station in life; willingly go beneath one's normal level of dignity; [fig.] agree; be approachable.