■ verb
1》 deny access to; keep out.
↘expel (a pupil) from a school.
2》 remove from consideration.
↘prevent the occurrence of.
Phrases
law (or principle ) of the ~d middle Logic the principle that one (and one only) of two contradictory propositions must be true.
Derivatives
excludable adjective
~r noun
Origin
ME: from L. exclus- , ~re , from ex- 'out' + claudere 'to shut'.