
Noah Webster
Conclusive
CONCLUSIVE, adjective
1. Final; decisive; as a conclusive answer to a proposition.
2. Decisive; giving a final determination; precluding a further act.
The agreeing votes of both houses were not, by any law or reason, conclusive to my judgment.
3. Decisive; concluding the question; putting an end to debate; as a conclusive argument.
4. Regularly consequential.
Men, not knowing the true forms of syllogisms, cannot know whether they are made in right and conlusive modes and figures.