That concludes.
† 1. Conclusive, decisive, convincing. Obs.
1616. Brent, trans. Sarpis Hist. Counc. Trent (1629), 263. In giuing a reason why the doctrine was omitted, the most concluding argument was, that so it was done in the Session concerning originall sinne.
1725. trans. Dupins Eccl. Hist. 17th C., I. VI. v. 258. He maintains there that all the Passages are not concluding.
2. Finishing, closing, final.
1824. L. Murray, Eng. Gram. (ed. 5), I. 469. When our sentence consists of two members, the longer should, generally, be the concluding one.
1855. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., III. 532. As the concluding words were uttered.
1863. Lyell, Antiq. Man, 3. In the concluding chapters.