v.
- deny access to; keep out.
▸expel (a pupil) from a school.
- remove from consideration.
▸prevent the occurrence of.
Phrase
- law
(or principle)
of the excluded middle
Logic the principle that one (and one only) of two contradictory propositions must be true.
Derivative
- excludable adj.
- excluder n.
Etymology
ME: from L. exclus-, excludere, from ex- ‘out’ + claudere ‘to shut’.