[f. EXCLUDE + -ER1.] One who or that which excludes or shuts out.

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  b.  spec. One who attempts to exclude a candidate from office by voting against him; esp. one who voted for the Exclusion Bill (EXCLUSION 1 b).

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1670.  G. H., Hist. Cardinals, III. II. 276. They left no stone unturned, that might mollifie the excluders, and prevail with them to give their votes for Montalto.

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1685.  Addr. Middlesex Just. of Peace, in Lond. Gaz., No. 2010/4. The race of Regicides and Excluders (who Murthered the Royal Martyr your Father).

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1848.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., I. 476. The grand jury of Suffolk expressed a hope that the parliament would proscribe all the excluders.

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