Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CON-CI'TED, pp.

Excited.

CON-CI'TING, ppr.

Exciting.

CON-CIT'I-ZEN, n.

A fellow citizen.

CON-CLA-MA'TION, n. [L. conclamatio, from conclamo; con and clamo, to cry out. See Claim.]

An outcry or shout of many together. Dict.

CON'CLAVE, n. [L. conclave, an inner room; con and clavis, a key, or from the same root, to make fast.]

1. A private apartment, particularly the room in which the Cardinals of the Romish church meet in privacy, for the election of a Pope. It consists of a range of small cells, or apartments, standing in a line along the galleries and ball of the Vatican. – Encyc.
2. The assembly or meeting of the Cardinals, shut up for the election of a Pope. – Encyc.
3. A private meeting; a close assembly. – Garth.

CON-CLUDE', v.i.

1. To infer, as a consequence; to determine. The world will conclude I had a guilty conscience. – Arbuthnot. But this verb is really transitive. The world will conclude that I had a guilty conscience – that is here the object, referring to the subsequent clause of the sentence. [See Verb Transitive, No. 3.]
2. To settle opinion; to form a final judgment. Can we conclude upon Luther's instability, as our author has done. – Atterbury.
3. To end. A train of lies, / That, made in lust, conclude in perjuries. – Dryden. The old form of expression, to conclude of, is no longer in use.

CON-CLUDE', v.t. [L. concludo; con and claudo, or cludo, to shut; Gr. κλειδοω, or κλειω, contracted; It. conchiudere; Sp. concluir; Port. id.; Fr. conclure. The sense is to stop, make fast, shut, or rather to thrust together. Hence, in Latin, claudo signifies to halt, or limp, that is, to stop, as well as to shut. See Lid.]

1. To shut. The very person of Christ … was only, touching bodily substance, concluded in the grave. – Hooker. [This use of the word is uncommon.]
2. To include; to comprehend. For God hath concluded them all in unbelief. Rom. xi. The Scripture bath concluded alt under sin. Gal. iii. The meaning of the word in the latter passage may be to declare irrevocably or to doom.
3. To collect by reasoning; to infer, as from premises; to close an argument by inferring. Therefore we conclude, that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. Rom. iii.
4. To decide; to determine; to make a final judgment or determination. As touching the Gentiles who believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing. – Rom. xi.
5. To end; to finish. I will conclude this part with the speech of a counselor of state. – Bacon.
6. To stop or restrain, or as in law, to stop from further argument or proceedings; to oblige or bind, as by authority, or by one's own argument or concession; generally in the passive; as, the defendant is concluded by his own plea. If they will appeal to revelation for their creation, they must be concluded by it. – Hale. I do not consider the decision of that motion, upon affidavits, to amount to a res judicata, which ought to conclude the present inquiry. – Kent.

CON-CLUD'ED, pp.

Shut; ended; finished; determined; inferred; comprehended; stopped, or bound.

CON-CLUD'EN-CY, n.

Inference; logical deduction from premises. – Hale.

CON-CLUD'ENT, a.

Bringing to a close; decisive. – Bacon.

CON-CLUD'ER, n.

One who concludes. – Mountagu.

CON-CLUD'ING, ppr.

1. Shutting; ending; determining; inferring; comprehending.
2. adj. Final; ending; closing; as, the concluding sentence of an essay.

CON-CLUD'ING-LY, adv.

Conclusively; with incontrovertible evidence. [Little used.] – Digby.

CON-CLU'SI-BLE, a.

That may be concluded or inferred; determinable. [Little used.] Hammond.

CON-CLU'SION, n. [s as z. L. conclusio.]

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. – Eccles. xii.
3. Determination; final decision; as, 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.] – Bacon.
6. Confinement of the thoughts; silence. [Not used.] – Shak.

CON-CLU'SION-AL, a.

Concluding. [Not used.] – Hooper.

CON-CLU'SIVE, a. [It. conclusivo.]

1. Final; decisive; as, a conclusive answer to a proposition.
2. Decisive; giving a final determination; precluding a further act. The agreeing votes of both houses were not, by any law or reason, conclusive to my judgment. King Charles.
3. Decisive; concluding the question; putting an end to debate; as, a conclusive argument.
4. Regularly consequential. Men, not knowing the true forms of syllogisms, can not know whether they are made in right and conclusive modes and figures. – Locke.

CON-CLU'SIVE-LY, adv.

Decisively; with final determination; as, the point of law is conclusively settled.

CON-CLU'SIVE-NESS, n.

The quality of being conclusive, or decisive; the power of determining the opinion, or of settling a question; as, the conclusiveness of evidence, or of an argument. – Hale.

CON-CLU'SO-RY, a.

Conclusive.

CON-CO-AG'U-LATE, v.t. [con and coagulate.]

To curdle or congeal one thing with another. – Boyle.

CON-CO-AG'U-LA-TED, pp.

Curdled; concreted.

CON-CO-AG'U-LA-TING, ppr.

Concreting; curdling.

CON-CO-AG-U-LA'TION, n.

A coagulating together, as different substances, or bodies, in one mass. Crystalization of different salts in the same menstruum. – Coxe. [This word is little used.]

CON-COCT', v.t. [L. concoquo, concoctum; con and coquo, to cook. See Cook.]

1. To digest by the stomach, so as to turn food to chyle or nutriment. The vital functions are performed by general and constant laws; the food is concocted. – Cheyne.
2. To purify or sublime; to refine by separating the gross or extraneous matter; as, concocted venom. – Thomson.
3. To ripen. Fruits and grains are half a year in concocting. – Bacon.