a. [f. prec. + -ARY1.] Of or pertaining to exclusion; characterized by exclusion.
1817. Bentham, Parl. Ref. Catech., p. cliv. Note well the persons to whom, in this instance, the exclusionary force is in an immediate way applied.
1849. W. M. Best, Law Evid. (1870), 32. Some of these rules are of an exclusionary nature, and reject as legal evidence facts in themselves entitled to consideration.
