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

exclude \exclude"\, 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.
      1913 webster

            and none but such, from mercy i exclude. --milton.
      1913 webster

   2. to thrust out or eject; to expel; as, to exclude young
      animals from the womb or from eggs.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster
see also:
excluded excluding close excluded middle principle of contradiction contradiction 

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