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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Conclusion \Con*clu"sion\, noun [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}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
conclusion
noun
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}]
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}, {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}, {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: {ratiocination}]
6: the act of ending something; "the termination of the agreement" [syn: {termination}, {ending}]
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: {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}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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