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verb

Exclude v. t. (past & past part. excluded; pres. part. excluding)

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."

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.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Exclude" Quotes from Famous Books

... figures with gray chalk, where I thought they might catch his eye. When she had finished sweeping she carefully sorted the scraps, and put them into boxes under the counter; then she neatly rolled up the brown-paper curtains, which had been let down to exclude the afternoon sun; shook the old patchwork cushions in the osier-bottomed chairs; watered the rose-geranium and the monthly rose, which flourished wonderfully in that fluffy atmosphere; set every pin and needle in its place, and shut the door, which was opened again at sunrise. ...

— The Morgesons • Elizabeth Stoddard

... retained in the hands of the few, the use of the greater part of this world's goods belongs to a small number of individuals, who are always the same. Necessity, public opinion, or moderate desires exclude all others from the enjoyment of them. As this aristocratic class remains fixed at the pinnacle of greatness on which it stands, without diminution or increase, it is always acted upon by the same wants and affected by ...

— Democracy In America, Volume 2 (of 2) • Alexis de Tocqueville

... the West. The Papacy took the view that images were a help to true devotion and might, therefore, be allowed. When a Roman emperor issued a decree for the destruction of all images, the pope refused to obey the order in the churches under his direction, and went so far as to exclude the Iconoclasts from Christian fellowship. Although the iconoclastic movement failed in the East, after a violent controversy, it helped still further to sharpen the antagonism between the two branches of Christendom. Other causes of dispute arose in later times, chiefly concerning fine ...

— EARLY EUROPEAN HISTORY • HUTTON WEBSTER

... dreaded floods below shall reach, And vain cold phantoms quiv'ring stand, In those sad gloomy shades of night, No Cynthia's charms will then command, Nor Iris with her angel's voice delight; Nor Doris with soft dying languors move. These dreary realms exclude, ...

— Ebrietatis Encomium - or, the Praise of Drunkenness • Boniface Oinophilus

... spreading from brim to brim of a basin that had been scooped out of the solid rock. A ray of glory flashed across its surface. The pilgrims looked whence it should proceed, but closed their eyes, with a thrill of awful admiration, to exclude the fervid splendor that glowed from the brow of a cliff impending over ...

— Twice Told Tales • Nathaniel Hawthorne

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