Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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.