(v. t.) To shut out; to hinder from entrance or admission; to debar from participation or enjoyment; to deprive of; to except; -- the opposite to admit; as, to exclude a crowd from a room or house; to exclude the light; to exclude one nation from the ports of another; to exclude a taxpayer from the privilege of voting.
(v. t.) To thrust out or eject; to expel; as, to exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs.
Example Sentences:
(1) IT can, therefore, be excluded almost with certainty that the meat would contain such large amounts of hormone residues.
(2) The reproducibility of the killing-curve method suggests that at least two different concentrations should be used and that a decrease in viable counts below 2 log10 after 24 hours does not exclude a synergistic action.
(3) This observation, reinforced by simultaneous determinations of cortisol levels in the internal spermatic and antecubital veins, practically excluded the validity of the theory of adrenal hormonal suppression of testicular tissues.
(4) Of the sampled population, 6.3 per cent exhibited some degree of hypodontia (third molar agenesis excluded).
(5) Comparison of the 50% binding concentrations of the compounds for the various PBPs of the five strains with their antibacterial activity indicates that the different antibiotics are excluded to a greater or lesser degree by the outer membrane permeability barrier and that the exclusion is most pronounced in P. aeruginosa.
(6) To exclude potential interactions with components of the extracellular matrix which contains binding sites for PAI-1, ligand binding to HepG2 cells in suspension was assessed.
(7) The use of a major pancreatic resection for the surgical management of necrotizing pancreatitis should be excluded from treatment protocols.
(8) Antigen of HK-9 strain created in this area a characteristic pattern with all sera containing the specific anti-E. histolytica antibodies and, therefore, EITB can be used for excluding false positive results in ELISA.
(9) If he is not bluffing, this may cause a total rift with the European family from which Turkey already feels excluded.
(10) The release of possible peptide hormones into the interpeduncular cistern, where a pool of cerebrospinal fluid and large blood vessels occur, cannot be excluded.
(11) Nevertheless a small proportion of the largest molecules (excluded from Sepharose 2B) was present even in the first extract.
(12) When the results of the different studies are pooled, however, there is a significant difference between those patients with true infarction, and those in whom infarction was excluded, in terms of overall mortality (12% and 7%; P less than 0.0001) and the development of subsequent non-fatal infarction (11% and 6%; P less than 0.05) when the results are analysed for a period of follow-up of one year.
(13) The behavior of the retrograde H deflection in respect to the first extra beat following the premature QRS complex helped in excluding bundle branch reentry.
(14) Subjects with past history of chronic substance abuse, neurologic disease, or focal findings on MRI or CT were excluded.
(15) These measures excluded unfavourable lethal outcomes even in cases complicated by Gayet-Wernicke encephalopathy.
(16) The possibility of ICH should always be considered and excluded by CT or US in the infants with nonspecific clinical manifestations.
(17) Two of the excluded women refluxed during episodes of hiccough that occurred shortly after induction of anaesthesia.
(18) Patients with polyneuropathy or incomplete diagnostic evaluation were excluded.
(19) In the remaining 4 patients MRI provided support for the diagnosis of MS by demonstrating the cervical spinal cord plaques while excluding other potential causes of myelopathy, such as spinal cord compression and intramedullary tumor.
(20) When achromatic lesions were excluded from the analyses, these differences were not found.
Excommunicate
Definition:
(a.) Excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church.
(n.) One excommunicated.
(v. t.) To put out of communion; especially, to cut off, or shut out, from communion with the church, by an ecclesiastical sentence.
(v. t.) To lay under the ban of the church; to interdict.
Example Sentences:
(1) If that makes Rupert Murdoch my responsibility, I’ll auto-excommunicate.” Australian celebrities have not held back either.
(2) The church excommunicated him in 1901, unhappy with his novel Resurrection and Tolstoy's espousal of Christian anarchist and pacifist views.
(3) A leading Greek bishop has warned lawmakers that they risk incurring the wrath of God – and will be excommunicated – if they vote in favour of legalising same-sex partnerships.
(4) There is also a disagreement over the the fate of eight “illegal” bishops appointed by officials in China, some of whom have been excommunicated by the Vatican.
(5) Mr Balestrieri, who founded an organisation last June with the express purpose of seeking Mr Kerry's excommunication, was unrepentant.
(6) It is the most progressive constitution in the Arab region, enshrining women’s rights, freedom of belief, conscience, and worship, and banning incitement to violence and religious excommunication.
(7) Bishop Christopher Senyonjo, who was excommunicated from the Church of Uganda for his opposition to homophobia, said: "I condemn it in very strong terms because it shows there's a lot of misinformation, misunderstanding, I could say ignorance about homosexuality.
(8) The Catholic Church in 1869 punished with excommunication the aborting woman and the provider and in 1895, condemned explicitly and publicly any therapeutic abortion.
(9) The town council of Lutherstadt Wittenberg recommended Pussy Riot for the national prize named in honour of Martin Luther, who nailed his 95 theses to a church door in 1517 and was excommunicated by the Catholic church when he refused to retract them.
(10) A headline in the rightwing Roman daily Il Tempo said “The pope excommunicates Marino.” But the pope’s apparent displeasure with Marino became even more evident when an Italian radio programme, La Zanzara (The Mosquito), made a prank call on Tuesday to a high-ranking Vatican official to inquire about the Marino controversy.
(11) Just days after Pope Francis made his strongest condemnation of the mafia, telling those who engaged in organised crime that they were excommunicated in all but name, the incident on Monday was interpreted as an act of apparent defiance to the Catholic leader and reaffirmation of the mafia's power.
(12) If that makes Rupert Murdoch my responsibility, I'll auto-excommunicate.
(13) Despite threats of excommunication from cardinals and bishops, a privately devout Catholic prime minister is on the verge of introducing limited abortion into Ireland for the first time in the Republic's existence.
(14) He did it again during the debate on 3 March: asked about his political excommunication by Mitt Romney, he chose to pivot and talk about … trade.
(15) The process The conclave is a highly secret affair, with the cardinal electors confined to their Vatican guesthouse when not deliberating in the Sistine chapel, and any leaking punishable by automatic excommunication.
(16) In 2001, the church reaffirmed Tolstoy's excommunication, and conservative Russian Orthodox thinkers have even placed Tolstoy's works on a blacklist.
(17) If that makes Rupert Murdoch my responsibility, I’ll auto-excommunicate.
(18) The attempt to discredit John Kerry among his fellow Catholics intensified yesterday when a rightwing activist claimed to have Vatican support for his excommunication.
(19) Sistani also ordered the fighters not to excommunicate their opponents in the battlefield in order to justify killing them, and to protect all of Iraq’s minorities.
(20) A Vatican edict in the 1960s threatened to excommunicate anyone breaking secrecy on child sex allegations, and guaranteed that ever more children continued to suffer.