verb

• (intransitive) To end; to come to an end.
• (transitive) To bring to an end; to close; to finish.
• (transitive) To bring about as a result; to effect; to make.
• (transitive) To come to a conclusion, to a final decision.
• (obsolete) To make a final determination or judgment concerning; to judge; to decide.
• To shut off; to restrain; to limit; to estop; to bar; generally in the passive.
• (obsolete) To shut up; to enclose.
• (obsolete) To include; to comprehend; to shut up together; to embrace; to confine.
• (logic) to deduce, to infer (develop a causal relation)