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Webster 1913 Edition
Conclusion
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. Shakespeare
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
And still
conclusion
. Shakespeare
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.
Syn. – Inference; deduction; result; consequence; end; decision. See
Inference
. Webster 1828 Edition
Conclusion
CONCLUSION
,Noun.
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.]Definition 2024
conclusion
conclusion
See also: conclusión
English
Noun
conclusion (plural conclusions)
- The end, finish, close or last part of something.
- Prescott
- A flourish of trumpets announced the conclusion of the contest.
- Prescott
- The outcome or result of a process or act.
- A decision reached after careful thought.
- Shakespeare
- And the conclusion is, she shall be thine.
- The board has come to the conclusion that the proposed takeover would not be in the interest of our shareholders.
- 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page vii
- With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get […] h
- Shakespeare
- (logic) In an argument or syllogism, the proposition that follows as a necessary consequence of the premises.
- Addison
- He granted him both the major and minor, but denied him the conclusion.
- Addison
- (obsolete) An experiment, or something from which a conclusion may be drawn.
- Francis Bacon
- We practice likewise all conclusions of grafting and inoculating.
- Francis Bacon
- (law) The end or close of a pleading, e.g. the formal ending of an indictment, "against the peace", etc.
- (law) An estoppel or bar by which a person is held to a particular position.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Wharton to this entry?)
Related terms
Antonyms
- (end): beginning, initiation, start
Coordinate terms
- (in logic): premise
Translations
end, final part
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outcome
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decision, judgment
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of a syllogism
French
Etymology
From Old French, from Latin conclusio, from the past participle stem of concludere (“conclude”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ̃klyzjɔ̃/
Noun
conclusion f (plural conclusions)