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<h1>Concite</h1> <Xpage=295>

<hw>Con*cite"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>concitare</ets>; <ets>con-</ets> + <ets>citare</ets>. See Cite.]</ety> <def>To excite or stir up.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Cotgrave.</i>

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<h1>Conclamation</h1> <Xpage=296>

<hw>Con`cla*ma"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>conclamatio</ets>.]</ety> <def>An outcry or shout of many together.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>Before his funeral <b>conclamation</b>. <i>May (Lucan).</i></blockquote>

<h1>Conclave</h1> <Xpage=296>

<hw>Con"clave</hw> <tt>(? &or; ?; 277)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F., fr. L. <ets>conclave</ets> a room that may locked up; <ets>con-</ets> + <ets>clavis</ets> key. See <er>Clavicle</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The set of apartments within which the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church are continuously secluded while engaged in choosing a pope.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The body of cardinals shut up in the conclave for the election of a pope; hence, the body of cardinals.</def>

<blockquote>It was said a cardinal, by reason of his apparent likelihood to step into St. Peter's chair, that in two <b>conclaves</b> he went in pope and came out again cardinal. <i>South.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A private meeting; a close or secret assembly.</def>

<blockquote>The verdicts pronounced by this <b>conclave</b> (Johnson's Club) on new books, were speedily known over all London. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>To be in conclave</col>, <cd>to be engaged in a secret meeting; -- said of several, or a considerable number of, persons.</cd></cs>

<h1>Conclavist</h1> <Xpage=296>

<hw>Con"cla`vist</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>conclaviste</ets>, It. <ets>conclavista</ets>.]</ety> <def>One of the two ecclesiastics allowed to attend a cardinal in the conclave.</def>

<h1>Conclude</h1> <Xpage=296>

<hw>Con*clude"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Concluded</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Concluding</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>concludere</ets>, <ets>conclusum</ets>; <ets>con-</ets> + <ets>claudere</ets> to shut. See <er>Close</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt>]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To shut up; to inclose.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>The very person of Christ <b>concluded</b> within the grave. <i>Hooker.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To include; to comprehend; to shut up together; to embrace.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>For God hath <b>concluded</b> all in unbelief. <i>Rom. xi. 32.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The Scripture hath <b>concluded</b> all under sin. <i>Gal. iii. 22.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To reach as an end of reasoning; to infer, as from premises; to close, as an argument, by inferring; -- sometimes followed by a dependent clause.</def>

<blockquote>No man can <b>conclude</b> God's love or hatred to any person by anything that befalls him. <i>Tillotson.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Therefore we <b>conclude</b> that a man is justified by faith. <i>Rom. iii. 28.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To make a final determination or judgment concerning; to judge; to decide.</def>

<blockquote>But no frail man, however great or high, Can be <b>concluded</b> blest before he die. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Is it <b>concluded</b> he shall be protector? <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>