Part 4016

<hw>Ex*claim"</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Outcry; clamor.</def> <mark>[Archaic]</mark>

<blockquote>Cursing cries and deep <b>exclaims</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Exclaimer</h1> <Xpage=521>

<hw>Ex*claim"er</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who exclaims.</def>

<h1>Exclamation</h1> <Xpage=521>

<hw>Ex`cla*ma"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>exclamatio</ets>: cf. F. <ets>exclamation</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A loud calling or crying out; outcry; loud or emphatic utterance; vehement vociferation; clamor; that which is cried out, as an expression of feeling; sudden expression of sound or words indicative of emotion, as in surprise, pain, grief, joy, anger, etc.</def>

<blockquote><b>Exclamations</b> against abuses in the church. <i>Hooker.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Thus will I drown your <b>exclamations</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>A festive <b>exclamation</b> not unsuited to the occasion. <i>Trench.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Rhet.)</fld> <def>A word expressing outcry; an interjection; a word expressing passion, as wonder, fear, or grief.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Print.)</fld> <def>A mark or sign by which outcry or emphatic utterance is marked; thus [!]; -- called also <altname>exclamation point</altname>.</def>

<h1>Exclamative</h1> <Xpage=521>

<hw>Ex*clam"a*tive</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>exclamatif</ets>.]</ety> <def>Exclamatory.</def> <i>Earle</i>. -- <wordforms><wf>Ex*clam"a*tive*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Exclamatory</h1> <Xpage=521>

<hw>Ex*clam"a*to*ry</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Containing, expressing, or using exclamation; <as>as, an <ex>exclamatory</ex> phrase or speaker</as>.</def> <i>South</i>. -- <wordforms><wf>Ex*clam"a*to*ti*ly</wf> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Exclave</h1> <Xpage=521>

<hw>Ex*clave"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Formed fr. <ets>enclave</ets> by substitution of <ets>ex-</ets> for <ets>en-</ets>]</ety> <def>A portion of a country which is separated from the main part and surrounded by politically alien territory.</def> <mark>[Recent.]</mark>

<note>&hand; The same territory is an <i>enclave</i> in respect to the surrounding country and an <i>exclave</i> with respect to the country to which it is politically attached.</note>

<h1>Exclude</h1> <Xpage=521>

<hw>Ex*clude"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Excluded</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Excluding</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>excludere</ets>, <ets>exclusum</ets>; <ets>ex</ets> out + <ets>claudere</ets> to shut. See <er>Close</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To shut out; to hinder from entrance or admission; to debar from participation or enjoyment; to deprive of; to except; -- the opposite to <i>admit</i>; <as>as, <ex>to exclude</ex> a crowd from a room or house; to <ex>exclude</ex> the light; to <ex>exclude</ex> one nation from the ports of another; to <ex>exclude</ex> a taxpayer from the privilege of voting.</as></def>

<blockquote>And none but such, from mercy I <b>exclude</b>. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To thrust out or eject; to expel; <as>as, to <ex>exclude</ex> young animals from the womb or from eggs</as>.</def>

<cs><col>Excluded middle</col>. <fld>(logic)</fld> <cd>The name given to the third of the "three logical axioms," so-called, namely, to that one which is expressed by the formula: "Everything is either A or Not-A." no third state or condition being involved or allowed. See <cref>Principle of contradiction</cref>, under <er>Contradiction</er>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Exclusion</h1> <Xpage=521>

<hw>Ex*clu"sion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>exclusio</ets>: cf. F. <ets>exclusion</ets>. See <er>Exclude</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of excluding, or of shutting out, whether by thrusting out or by preventing admission; a debarring; rejection; prohibition; the state of being excluded.</def>

<blockquote>His sad <b>exclusion</b> from the doors of bliss. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The <b>exclusion</b> of the duke from the crown of England and Ireland. <i>Hume.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Physiol.)</fld> <def>The act of expelling or ejecting a fetus or an egg from the womb.</def>