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Final; serving to complete; conclusive. [Obs.] "Desitive propositions." I. Watts.

Conclusive; decisive; positive. The determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God. Acts ii. 23.

Having power to determine; limiting; shaping; directing; conclusive. Incidents . . . determinative of their course. I. Taylor. Determinative tables (Nat. Hist.), tables presenting the specific character of minerals, plants, etc., to assist in determining the species to which a specimen belongs.

An argument which presents an antagonist with two or more alternatives, but is equally conclusive against him, whichever alternative he chooses.

That part of an argument on which its conclusiveness depends; that which convinces of refutes an antagonist; a refutation.

ch no procession can be made; conclusion; issue; result, whether successful or otherwise; conclusive event; consequence. My guilt be on my head, and there an end. Shak. O that a man might know The end of this day's business ere it come! Shak.

Conclusive evidence; proof. [Obs.] Full eviction of this fatal truth. South.

ynonymous with evidence, but rather the effect of it. Greenleaf. Circumstantial evidence, Conclusive evidence, etc. See under Circumstantial, Conclusive, etc. -- Crown's, King's, or Queen's evidence, evidence for the crown. [Eng.] -- State's evidence, evidence for the government or the people. [U. S. ] -- To turn King…

Last; final; conclusive; -- said of time; as, the extreme hour of life.

; as, to fight cocks; to fight one's ship. To fight it out, to fight until a decisive and conclusive result is reached.

Conclusive; decisive; as, a final judgment; the battle of Waterloo brought the contest to a final issue.

The state of being final, finished, or complete; a final or conclusive arrangement; a settlement. Baxter.

Conclusive; decisive; definitive; final. [Obs.] Greene (1593).

To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down; hence, to silence by a conclusive answer or retort; as, to floor an opponent. Floored or crushed by him. Coleridge.

Anything that floors or upsets a person, as a blow that knocks him down; a conclusive answer or retort; a task that exceeds one's abilities. [Colloq.]

ignifying relating or belonging to, of the nature of, tending to; as affirmative, active, conclusive, corrective, diminutive.

Relating to, dependent on, or denoting, illation; inferential; conclusive; as, an illative consequence or proposition; an illative word, as then, therefore, etc. Illative conversion (Logic), a converse or reverse statement of a proposition which in that form must be true because the original proposition is true. -- Il…

Not inferring a conclusion or consequence; not conclusive. [Obs.]

quality or state of being inconsequent; want of just or logical inference or argument; inconclusiveness. Bp. Stillingfleet. Strange, that you should not see the inconsequence of your own reasoning! Bp. Hurd.

bate or expostulation; not admitting of question or appeal; positive; absolute; decisive; conclusive; final. Think of heaven with hearty purposes and peremptory designs to get thither. Jer. Taylor.