. Any of several acts forbidding the immigration of Chinese laborers into the United States, originally from 1882 to 1892 by act of May 6, 1882, then from 1892 to 1902 by act May 5, 1892. By act of April 29, 1902, all existing legislation on the subject was reënacted and continued, and made applicable to the insular possessions of the United States. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

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 ]

n. [ L. exclusio: cf. F. exclusion. See Exclude. ] 1. The act of excluding, or of shutting out, whether by thrusting out or by preventing admission; a debarring; rejection; prohibition; the state of being excluded. [ 1913 Webster ]

His sad exclusion from the doors of bliss. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

The exclusion of the duke from the crown of England and Ireland. Hume. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Physiol.) The act of expelling or ejecting a fetus or an egg from the womb. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Thing emitted. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tending to exclude; causing exclusion; exclusive. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The character, manner, or principles of an exclusionist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who would exclude another from some right or privilege; esp., one of the anti-popish politicians of the time of Charles II. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>a. [ Cf. F. exclusif. ] 1. Having the power of preventing entrance; debarring from participation or enjoyment; possessed and enjoyed to the exclusion of others; as, exclusive bars; exclusive privilege; exclusive circles of society. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not taking into the account; excluding from consideration; -- opposed to inclusive; as, five thousand troops, exclusive of artillery. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One of a coterie who exclude others; one who from real of affected fastidiousness limits his acquaintance to a select few. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quality of being exclusive. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or practice of excluding being exclusive; exclusiveness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who favor or practices any from of exclusiveness or exclusivism. [ 1913 Webster ]

The field of Greek mythology . . . the favorite sporting ground of the exclusivists of the solar theory. Gladstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. exclusorius. ] Able to exclude; excluding; serving to exclude. [ 1913 Webster ]

See drainable.
See dramatic.
See drinkable.
See durable.
See duteous.
See dutiful.
See earnest.
See eatable.
See ecclesiastical.
See edible.
See elaborate.
See elective.
See elusive.
See emotional.
See emphatic. See employable.
See employable.
See endurable.
See -English.
See entire.
See enviable.
See envious.
See episcopal.
See equable.
See errable.
See escapable.
See evangelical.
See eventful.
See evident.
See exact.
See examinable.
See exceptionable.
See exclusive.
See exemplary.
See exempt.
See exhaustible.
See existent.
See expectable.
See expectant.
See explainable.
See express.
See expressible.
See expugnable.
See extinct.
See factious.
See fadable.
See fain.
See familiar.
See famous.
See fashionable.
See fast.
See fatherly.
See fathomable.
See faulty.
See fearful.
See feasible.
See felicitous.
See felt.
See feminine.
See fermentable.
See festival.
See fine.
See fleshy.
See fluent.
See forcible.
See fordable.
See foreknowable.
See foreseeable.
See forgetful.
See forgivable.
See formal.
See framable.
See fraternal.
See friable.
See frightful.
See frustrable.
See full.
See gainable.
See gainful.
See gallant.
See genial.
See genteel.
See gentle.
See gentlemanlike.
See gentlemanly.
See geometrical.
See ghostly.
See glad.
See godlike.
See good.
See goodly.
See gorgeous.
See grammatical.
See grave.
See guidable.
See guilty.
See habile.
See habitable.
See hale.
See handy.
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See harmful.
See hasty.
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See healable.
See healthful.
See healthy.
See heavenly.
See heedful.
See helpful.
See heritable.
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[ 1913 Webster ]