Exclude

eks-klōōd′, v.t. to close or shut out: to thrust out: to hinder from entrance: to hinder from participation: to except.— ns. Exclu′sion , a shutting or putting out: ejection: exception; Exclu′sionism ; Exclu′sionist , one who excludes, or would exclude, another from a privilege.— adj. Exclu′sive , able or tending to exclude: debarring from participation: sole: not taking into account.— n. one of a number who exclude others from their society.— adv. Exclu′sively .— ns. Exclu′sivene ; Exclu′sivism .— adj. Exclu′sory , exclusive.— Exclusive dealing , the act of abstaining deliberately from any busine or other transactions with persons of opposite political or other convictions to one's own—a euphemism for boycotting (q.v.). [L. excludĕre — ex , out, claudĕre , to shut.]