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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

EXCLU'DE, v.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, etc. in a general sense.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: prevent from being included or considered or accepted; "The bad results were excluded from the report"; "Leave off the top piece" [syn: exclude, except, leave out, leave off, omit, take out] [ant: include]
2: prevent from entering; shut out; "The trees were shutting out all sunlight"; "This policy excludes people who have a criminal record from entering the country" [syn: exclude, keep out, shut out, shut] [ant: admit, include, let in]
3: lack or fail to include; "The cost for the trip excludes food and beverages" [ant: include]
4: prevent from entering; keep out; "He was barred from membership in the club" [syn: bar, debar, exclude]
5: put out or expel from a place; "The unruly student was excluded from the game" [syn: eject, chuck out, exclude, turf out, boot out, turn out]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb (excluded; excluding) Etymology: Middle English, from Latin excludere, from ex- + claudere to close — more at close Date: 14th century 1. a. to prevent or restrict the entrance of b. to bar from participation, consideration, or inclusion 2. to expel or bar especially from a place or position previously occupied • excluder noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. 1 shut or keep out (a person or thing) from a place, group, privilege, etc. 2 expel and shut out. 3 remove from consideration (no theory can be excluded). 4 prevent the occurrence of; make impossible (excluded all doubt). Phrases and idioms: excluded middle Logic the principle that of two contradictory propositions one must be true. Derivatives: excludable adj. excluder n. Etymology: ME f. L excludere exclus- (as EX-(1), claudere shut)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Exclude Ex*clude", v. 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(excludes, excluding, excluded) 1. If you exclude someone from a place or activity, you prevent them from entering it or taking part in it. The Academy excluded women from its classes... Many of the youngsters feel excluded. VERB: V n from n, V-ed, also V n 2. If you exclude something that has some connection with what you are doing, you deliberately do not use it or consider it. They eat only plant foods, and take care to exclude animal products from other areas of their lives... In some schools, Christmas carols are being modified to exclude any reference to Christ. VERB: V n from n, V n 3. To exclude a possibility means to decide or prove that it is wrong and not worth considering. I cannot entirely exclude the possibility that some form of pressure was applied to the neck. VERB: usu with brd-neg, V n 4. To exclude something such as the sun's rays or harmful germs means to prevent them physically from reaching or entering a particular place. This was intended to exclude the direct rays of the sun... VERB: V n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. 1. Bar, debar, preclude, reject, shut out. 2. Prohibit, restrain, hinder, withhold. 3. Except, omit, not include. 4. Expel, eject, extrude, thrust out.

Moby Thesaurus

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