Excluding

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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              And none but such, from mercy I exclude. --Milton.
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     2. To thrust out or eject; to expel; as, to exclude young
        animals from the womb or from eggs.
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     {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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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  49 Moby Thesaurus words for "excluding":
     aside from, bar, barring, beside, besides, but, discounting,
     ethnocentric, ex, except, except for, excepting,
     exception taken of, exceptional, exclusive, exclusive of,
     exclusory, from, inadmissible, insular, leaving out, less,
     let alone, minus, narrow, not counting, off, omitting, outside of,
     parochial, precluding, preclusive, prescriptive, preventive,
     prohibitive, restrictive, save, save and except, saving, seclusive,
     segregative, select, selective, separative, snobbish, than, unless,
     without, xenophobic