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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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"Exclude" Quotes from Famous Books

... to have been the policy of the cabinet of Versailles to exclude the American States from a share of the fisheries, and to limit their western boundary to the settlements then made. Either from a real apprehension that the war might be protracted should the United States insist on the acknowledgment of their independence ...

— The Life of George Washington, Vol. 3 (of 5) • John Marshall

... exclaimed here, "I could find some discrepancy in this. On the one hand you boggle at boils, on the other you suffer pearls to be thrust upon you. Why, if you cleave to the one, should you despise the other? For, for aught I see, your thesis should exclude either." ...

— Earthwork Out Of Tuscany • Maurice Hewlett

... our power of judging others, it is a power we are all obliged to exercise. It is impossible to exclude the considerations of moral guilt and of palliating or aggravating circumstances from the penal code, and from the administration of justice, though it cannot be too clearly maintained that the criminal code is not ...

— The Map of Life - Conduct and Character • William Edward Hartpole Lecky

... though it is a rule that man is considered good only so far as he accomplishes all the good that he can, it is not the same with God, since the obligation to do good infinitely is contradictory to the very faculty of creation, perfection and creature being two terms that necessarily exclude each other. God, then, was sole judge of the degree of perfection which it was proper to give to each creature: to prefer a charge against him under this head is to slander ...

— The Philosophy of Misery • Joseph-Pierre Proudhon

... described, Acton invited the Triple Alliance to meet the "House of Lords" in the work-shed, to discuss an important scheme which he said had been in his mind for some days past; and the door having been locked to exclude outsiders, he commenced to unfold his ...

— The Triple Alliance • Harold Avery

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