Exclusion

[ad. L. exclusiōn-em, n. of action f. exclūdĕre: see EXCLUDE.] The action of excluding in various senses.

  1.  Shutting from a place, a society, etc., debarring from privilege, omitting from a category, from consideration, etc.; an instance of the same.

1614.  Raleigh, Hist. World, I. 80. The most high God is also an infinite God, not onely by exclusion of place, but by the dignity of nature.

1622.  Bacon, Hen. VII., 93. Whether the French King would agree to haue the disposing of the Marriage of Britaine with an exception and exclusion, that he should not marry her himselfe? Ibid. (1626), Sylva, § 318. All exclusion of open Air … maintaineth the Body in his first freshness.

1667.  Milton, P. L., III. 525. To dare The Fiend … or aggravate His sad exclusion from the dores of Bliss.

1670.  G. H., Hist. Cardinals, III. II. 276. There were 32 Cardinals in the Conclave for the Election of that person, and twenty for his Exclusion.

1690.  Locke, Hum. Und., II. iv. § 4. 49. Solidity consists in repletion, and so an utter Exclusion of other Bodies out of the space it possesses.

1698.  Ludlow, Mem. (1751), I. 14. An Act for the exclusion of the Bishops out of the House of Lords.

1715.  Atterbury, Serm. on Matt. xxvii. 25 (1734), I. v. 126 (Seager). To what else can be imputed their Exclusion from Offices and Honours…?

1791.  Burke, App. Whigs, Wks. VI. 110. I cannot be of opinion, that by his [Burke’s] exclusion they have had any loss at all.

1826.  Scott, Woodst., viii. Cromwell was wont to invest his meaning … in such a mist of words, surrounding it with so many exclusions and exceptions.

1832.  Austin, Jurispr. (1879), II. xlix. 832. That [mode of property] … which implies the largest power of user and exclusion.

1863.  H. Cox, Instit., III. iii. 619. The … exclusion of the female line … from succession to fiefs in England.

  b.  Phrases, † In exclusion of, to; to the exclusion of.

1691.  T. H[ale], Acc. New Invent., 87. Establishing this Method of sheathing, in Exclusion to all that had been till then used in the Navy.

1716.  Addison, Freeholder, No. 5. To the Exclusion of all common Humanity to Strangers.

1774.  Sir J. Reynolds, Disc., v. (1876), 391. I take this study in aid and not in exclusion of the other.

1865.  Dickens, Mut. Fr., I. 15. He spoke in the singular number to the express exclusion of Eugene.

1871.  B. Stewart, Heat, § 116. Two vessels entirely filled with water and vapour of water to the exclusion of air or any other gas.

  c.  Bill of exclusion, Exclusion Bill: a bill brought before parliament in the reign of Charles II. (1679), for excluding or preventing James, Duke of York, the king’s brother, from succeeding to the crown, on the ground of his being a Roman Catholic. So Exclusion Parliament.

1700.  Luttrell, Brief Rel. (1857), IV. 667. Sir William Williams, speaker of the exclusion parliaments in the reign of King Charles the 2d, is dead.

1729.  [J. Bramston], Art of Politicks, 17.

1827.  Hallam, Const. Hist. (1876), II. xii. 432. The bill of exclusion was drawn with as much regard to the inheritance of the duke of York’s daughter as they could reasonably demand.

1872.  J. S. Brewer, Stuarts, in Eng. Stud. (1881), 197. Halifax had spoken with great energy against the Exclusion Bill.

  2.  Method or process of Exclusion(s): the process of discovering the cause of a phenomenon, or the solution of a problem, by successively disproving all but one of the conceivable hypotheses. In Mathematics, applied to a method, now obsolete, devised by Frenicle c. 1666 for solving problems in the Theory of Numbers.

  3.  The action of putting or thrusting forth from any receptacle; of laying (eggs), hatching (chickens), bringing forth (a fœtus). † Also concr. that which is excluded.

1646.  Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., III. vi. 117. That … the … time of the Beares gestation … lasting but a few dayes … the exclusion becomes precipitous,… there may … from this narrow time of gestation ensue a minority or smalnesse in the exclusion.

1692.  Bentley, Boyle Lect., 145. The strange sagacity of little Insects in choosing of fit Places for the Exclusion of their Eggs.

1748.  Hartley, Observ. Man, I. ii. 176. The Exclusion of the Fœtus.

1836.  Todd, Cycl. Anat., I. 629/2. The larva of the Newt … a few days after its exclusion from the egg.

  † 4.  The action of discharging (excrement). Also concr. matter excluded, excrement. Obs.

1646.  Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., III. iii. 110. The salt and lixiviated serosity … hath but a single descent, by the guts, with the exclusions of the belly.

1664.  Power, Exp. Philos., I. 10. The excrements in the guts of the Louse, there reposited just before exclusion.