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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Exclude \Ex*clude"\, verb (used with an object) [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.
And none but such, from mercy I exclude. --Milton.
2. 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}.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
55 Moby Thesaurus words for "excluded": absurd, banned, barred, closed-out, contemned, contrary to reason, debarred, declined, declined with thanks, denied, deported, despised, disapproved, discarded, discounted, disdained, dismissed, disowned, ejected, excepted, exiled, expelled, forsworn, hopeless, ignored, impossible, inconceivable, left out, liquidated, logically impossible, not considered, not in it, not included, not possible, oxymoronic, paradoxical, precluded, preposterous, prohibited, purged, rebuffed, refused, rejected, renounced, repudiated, repulsed, ridiculous, ruled-out, scouted, self-contradictory, shut out, spurned, tabooed, unimaginable, unthinkable
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