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Webster 1913 Edition


Exclude

Ex-clude′

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Excluded
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Excluding
.]
[L.
excludere
,
exclusum
;
ex
out +
claudere
to shut. See
Close
.]
1.
To shut out; to hinder from entrance or admission; to debar from participation or enjoyment; to deprive of; to except; – the opposite to admit;
as,
to exclude
a crowd from a room or house; to
exclude
the light; to
exclude
one nation from the ports of another; to
exclude
a taxpayer from the privilege of voting.
And none but such, from mercy I
exclude
.
Milton.
2.
To thrust out or eject; to expel;
as, to
exclude
young animals from the womb or from eggs
.
Excluded middle
.
(logic)
The name given to the third of the “three logical axioms,” so-called, namely, to that one which is expressed by the formula: “Everything is either A or Not-A.” no third state or condition being involved or allowed. See
Principle of contradiction
, under
Contradiction
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Exclude

EXCLU'DE

,
Verb.
T.
[L. excludo; ex and claudo, to shut.] Properly, to thrust out or eject; but used as synonymous with preclude.
1.
To thrust out; to eject; as, to exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs.
2.
To hinder from entering or admission; to shut out; as, one body excludes another from occupying the same space. The church ought to exclude immoral men from the communion.
3.
To debar; to hinder from participation or enjoyment. European nations, in time of peace, exclude our merchants from the commerce of their colonies. In some of the states, no man who pays taxes is excluded from the privilege of voting for representatives.
4.
To except; not to comprehend or include in a privilege, grant, proposition, argument, description, order, species, genus, &c. in a general sense.

Definition 2024


exclude

exclude

English

Verb

exclude (third-person singular simple present excludes, present participle excluding, simple past and past participle excluded)

  1. To bar (someone) from entering; to keep out.
  2. To expel; to put out.
    to exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs
  3. (law, of evidence) To refuse to accept as valid.
  4. (medicine) To eliminate from diagnostic consideration.

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Latin

Verb

exclūde

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of exclūdō