Chapter Conciseness to Concourse of C by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

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. Wharton.

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.

Conclusive
(Con*clu"sive) a. [Cf. F. conclusif.] Belonging to a close or termination; 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 presumption (Law), an inference which the law makes so peremptorily that it will not allow it to be overthrown by any contrary proof, however strong.

Syn. — Final; ultimate; unanswerable. See Final.

Conclusively
(Con*clu"sive*ly) adv. In the way of conclusion; decisively; positively. Burke.

Conclusiveness
(Con*clu"sive*ness), n. The quality of being conclusive; decisiveness.

Conclusory
(Con*clu"so*ry) a. Conclusive. [R.]

Concoct
(Con*coct") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Concocted; p. pr. & vb. n. Concocting.] [L. concoctus, p. p. of concoquere to cook together, to digest, mature; con- + coquere to cook. See Cook.]

1. To digest; to convert into nourishment by the organs of nutrition. [Obs.]

Food is concocted, the heart beats, the blood circulates.
Cheyne.

2. To purify or refine chemically. [Obs.] Thomson.

3. To prepare from crude materials, as food; to invent or prepare by combining different ingredients; as, to concoct a new dish or beverage.

4. To digest in the mind; to devise; to make up; to contrive; to plan; to plot.

He was a man of a feeble stomach, unable to concoct any great fortune.
Hayward.