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Definition of Exclude

1. Verb. Prevent from being included or considered or accepted. "Leave off the top piece"

2. Verb. Prevent from entering; shut out. "This policy excludes people who have a criminal record from entering the country"

3. Verb. Lack or fail to include. "The cost for the trip excludes food and beverages"

4. Verb. Prevent from entering; keep out. "He was barred from membership in the club"

5. Verb. Put out or expel from a place. "The unruly student was excluded from the game"

Definition of Exclude

1. v. t. 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.

Definition of Exclude

1. Verb. To bar (someone) from entering; to keep out. ¹

2. Verb. To expel; to put out. ¹

3. Verb. (legal of evidence) To refuse to accept as valid. ¹

4. Verb. (medicine) To eliminate from diagnostic consideration. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Exclude

1. to shut out [v -CLUDED, -CLUDING, -CLUDES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Exclude

exclamation point hair exclamation points exclamational exclamations exclamative exclamatorily exclamatory exclame exclave exclaves

exclosure exclosures excludabilities excludability excludable exclude (current term) excluded excludee excludees excluder

excluders excludes excludible excluding exclusion exclusion chromatography exclusion of pupil exclusion principle exclusion zone exclusionarily

Literary usage of Exclude

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"... that their aversion to an active life contributed rather to excuse them from the service, than to exclude them from the honours, of the state and army. ..."

2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"If, furthermore, rigid practise would exclude instrumental music from ... Many people would exclude solo singing from church music for the reason that it ..."

3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"Also, the power which controls the elective franchise may exclude from the ... Congress can neither limit tlie effect of his pardon, nor exclude from its ..."

4. A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental by David ( Hume (1898)
"But this does not exclude the view that all desire is for pleasure. demning the self-affection, and with it the best man's pursuit of his own highest good ..."

5. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1887)
"... the next heir jp.alej'caine to England, not so much to put (n bis claim as to resign it, in order to confirm'the title of the heiress, and to exclude ..."

6. Memoirs of the Duke of Sully: Prime Minister to Henry the Great by Maximilien de Béthune Sully, Walter Scott (1890)
"... and afterwards to exclude him from the Conferences, but fails in both attempts, and returns home—Nicole Mignon attempts to poison the King—A public ..."

7. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... v and xi ; it is also true that the successive links of the genealogies in these two chapters appear to exclude any intermediate generation. ..."

8. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1882)
"A bill to exclude atheists from both Houses of Parliament was introduced in the House of Lords March 7, and read for the first time. ..."

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