exclude

verb

Etymology: Borrowed from Latin exclūdō, from prefix ex- (“out”) + variant form of verb claudō (“close”).

1. To bar (someone or something) from entering; to keep out.

   “One end of the east-west building is wet, the other windy, and at present there is smoke abounding, too; but these distressing yard elements can be completely excluded at each end by full-width folding doors [...].”

   “[T]he 1924 Immigration Act was designed specifically to exclude Eastern European Jews (among other undesirable European ethnic groups) from entering the country.”

2. To expel; to put out.

   “to exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs”

   “[…] for hungry birds have devoured ſeeds, and having moiſtened and warmed them in their bellies, a little after have dunged in the forky twiſtes of Trees, and together with their dung excluded the ſeed whole which erſt they had ſwallowed: and ſometimes it brings forth there where they dung it, […]”

3. To omit from consideration.

   “Count from 1 to 30, but exclude the prime numbers.”

4. To refuse to accept (evidence) as valid.
5. To eliminate from diagnostic consideration.