To shut. The very person of Christ--was only, touching bodily substance, concluded in the grave.

To include; to comprehend. For God hath concluded them all in unbelief. Romans 17:32. The scripture hath concluded all under sin. Galatians 3:22. The meaning of the word in the latter passage may be to declare irrevocably or to doom.

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. Romans 3:28.

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. Acts 27:25.

To end; to finish . I will conclude this part with the sppech of a counselor of state.

To stop or restrain, or as in law, to estop from further argument or proceedings; to oblige or bind, as by authority or by ones own argument or concession; generally in the passive. If they will appeal to revelation for their creation, they must be concluded by it. The defendant is concluded by his own plea. I do not consider the decision of that motion, upon affidavits, to amount to a res judicata, which ought to conclude the present inquiry.

To infer, as a consequence; to determine. 1£ The world will conclude I had a guilty conscience. But this verb is really transitive. The world will conclude that I ahd a guilty conscience--that is here the object, referring to the subsequent clause of the sentence.

To settle opinion; to form a final judgment. Can we conclude upon Luthers instability, as our author has done.

To end. A train of lies, that, made in lust, conclude in perjuries. The old form of expression, to conclude of, is no longer in use.