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The last part of anything; close; termination; end. A fluorish of trumpets announced the conclusion of the contest. Prescott.

An erroneous inference or conclusion. Bp. Hall.

ufficiency of the evidence furnished by physical and physical data, to warrant a positive conclusion (as taught by the school of Herbert Spencer); -- opposed alike dogmatic skepticism and to dogmatic theism.

The consequent clause or conclusion in a conditional sentence, expressing the result, and thus distinguished from the protasis or clause which expresses a condition. Thus, in the sentence, "Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him," the former clause is the protasis, and the latter the apodosis.

The act of forming reasons, making inductions, drawing conclusions, and applying them to the case in discussion; the operation of inferring propositions, not known or admitted as true, from facts or principles known, admitted, or proved to be true. Which manner of argumentation, how false and naught it is, . . . every…

nment or reaching of any object, by effort, or in natural course; as, our arrival at this conclusion was wholly unexpected.

To put on a base or basis; to lay the foundation of; to found, as an argument or conclusion; -- used with on or upon. Bacon.

Intimation of caution; warning; protest. We think it right to enter our caveat against a conclusion. Jeffrey. Caveat emptor Etym: [L.] (Law), let the purchaser beware, i. e., let him examine the article he is buying, and act on his own judgment.

Becoming to a Christian. A virtuous and a Christianlike conclusion. Shak.

Conclusion; cessation; ending; end. His long and troubled life was drawing to a close. Macaulay.

A conclusion; an end. [Obs.] Shak.

Tending toward the same conclusion or result as something else; additional; as, collateral evidence. Yet the attempt may give Collateral interest to this homely tale. Wordsworth.

Deduction from premises; inference; conclusion. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

; decisive; convincing; putting an end to debate or question; leading to, or involving, a conclusion or decision. Secret reasons . . . equally conclusive for us as they were for them. Rogers. Conclusive evidence (Law), that of which, from its nature, the law allows no contradiction or explanation. -- Conclusive presum…

In the way of conclusion; decisively; positively. Burke.

Serving to confirm; corroborative. A fact confirmatory of the conclusion. I. Taylor.

Congenital; connate; inborn. See Congenital. [Obs.] Many conclusions, of moral and intellectual truths, seem . . . to be congenite with us. Sir M. Hale.

A proposition collected from the agreement of other previous propositions; any conclusion which results from reason or argument; inference.

positions by rational deduction; that which is deduced from reasoning or argumentation; a conclusion, or inference.

A proposition in which, after a conclusion from something supposed has been drawn, the order is inverted, making the conclusion the supposition or premises, what was first supposed becoming now the conclusion or inference. Thus, if two sides of a sides of a triangle are equal, the angles opposite the sides are equal; a…