different between conclude vs effectuate

English

Etymology

From Middle English concluden, borrowed from Latin concl?dere (“to shut up, close, end”), present active infinitive of concl?d?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n.?klu?d/

Verb

conclude (third-person singular simple present concludes, present participle concluding, simple past and past participle concluded)

1. (intransitive) To end; to come to an end.

   The story concluded with a moral.
2. (transitive) To bring to an end; to close; to finish.
   • 1623, Francis Bacon, A Discourse of a War with Spain

     I will conclude this part with the speech of a counsellor of state.

3. (transitive) To bring about as a result; to effect; to make.

   to conclude a bargain
4. (transitive) To come to a conclusion, to a final decision.

   From the evidence, I conclude that this man was murdered.

   • a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Advantages of Religion to Societies

     No man can certainly conclude God's love or hatred to any person by anything that befalls him.

5. (obsolete) To make a final determination or judgment concerning; to judge; to decide.
   • 1717, Joseph Addison, Metamorphoses

     But no frail man, however great or high, / Can be concluded blest before he die.

6. To shut off; to restrain; to limit; to estop; to bar; generally in the passive.

   The defendant is concluded by his own plea.

   A judgment concludes the introduction of further evidence.

   • 1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature

     If therefore they will appeal to revelation for their creation they must be concluded by it.

7. (obsolete) To shut up; to enclose.
   • 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie

     The very person of Christ [was] concluded within the grave.

8. (obsolete) To include; to comprehend; to shut up together; to embrace.
9. (logic) to deduce, to infer (develop a causal relation)

Antonyms

• (to end): begin, initiate, start, commence

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Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ude

Verb

conclude

1. third-person singular present indicative of concludere

Latin

Verb

concl?de

1. second-person singular present active imperative of concl?d?

English

Etymology

From the participle stem of Renaissance Latin effectuare, or its source, Latin effectus (“effect”); probably after Middle French effectuer.

Verb

effectuate (third-person singular simple present effectuates, present participle effectuating, simple past and past participle effectuated)

1. (transitive) To cause, bring about (an event); to accomplish, to carry out (a wish, plan etc.). [from 16th c.]
   • 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol. III, ch. 88:

     [T]he next necessary step was to elude the vigilance of my guard: and in this manner did I effectuate my purpose.

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