Con·clu·sion n.
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.
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.
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Coun·try n.; pl. Countries
1. A tract of land; a region; the territory of an independent nation; (as distinguished from any other region, and with a personal pronoun) the region of one's birth, permanent residence, or citizenship.
Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred. --Gen. xxxxii. 9.
I might have learned this by my last exile,
that change of countries cannot change my state. --Stirling.
Many a famous realm
And country, whereof here needs no account --Milton.
2. Rural regions, as opposed to a city or town.
As they walked, on their way into the country. --Mark xvi. 12 (Rev. Ver. ).
God made the covatry, and man made the town. --Cowper.
Only very great men were in the habit of dividing the year between town and country. --Macaulay.
3. The inhabitants or people of a state or a region; the populace; the public. Hence: (a) One's constituents. (b) The whole body of the electors of state; as, to dissolve Parliament and appeal to the country.
All the country in a general voice
Cried hate upon him. --Shak.
4. Law (a) A jury, as representing the citizens of a country. (b) The inhabitants of the district from which a jury is drawn.
5. Mining. The rock through which a vein runs.
Conclusion to the country. See under Conclusion.
To put one's self upon the country, or To throw one's self upon the country, to appeal to one's constituents; to stand trial before a jury.