Definition of Exclusory

1. a. Able to exclude; excluding; serving to exclude.

Definition of Exclusory

1. Adjective. having the power or the function of excluding. ¹

2. Adjective. tending to exclude. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Exclusory

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Exclusory

exclusive rights
exclusively
exclusiveness
exclusivenesses
exclusives
exclusivism
exclusivisms
exclusivist
exclusivists
exclusivities
exclusivity
exclusivize
exclusivized
exclusivizes
exclusivizing
exclusory (current term)
excoct
excocted
excocting
excoction
excoctions
excogitate
excogitated
excogitates
excogitating
excogitation
excogitations
excogitative
excogitator
excommune

Literary usage of Exclusory

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

1. Studies in American Jurisprudence by Theodore Frelinghuysen Cornell Demarest (1906)
"'mainly exclusory,' in the above quotation, that anything can be legally ... by the use of one or another equivalent of the term, mainly exclusory? ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1895)
"The Germans call it ' biology,' which may serve to emphasize the importance of regarding the plant as a living, plastic being, but is not an exclusory term, ..."

3. The History of the Reformation of the Church of England by Gilbert Burnet, Edward Nares (1843)
"... and other fested, because the other part had a Copy that were exclusory of further Disputations thereof, but would the Pope's Holiness to to be had upon ..."

4. The History of the Reformation of the Church of England by Gilbert Burnet (1829)
"... hand with the pope to alter the intimation, and to put out the term peremptory, and other that were exclusory of further disputations to be had upon the ..."

5. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1830)
"... the Revolution was, to narrow as much as possible the exclusory laws, and that principle had been embodied in the Bill of Rights. ..."

6. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"The Germans call it " biology," which may serve to emphasize the importance of regarding the plant as a living, plastic being, but is not an exclusory term, ..."

7. Down South, Or, An Englishman's Experience at the Seat of the American War by Samuel Phillips Day (1862)
"... anti-slavery principles; fourthly, on the fact that the North has seized the occasion of a civil war to revive a prohibitory and exclusory tariff; and, ..."

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