excluded, ppl. a.
(ɛkˈskluːdɪd)
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
In senses of the verb. Also absol.
| 1672 in Essex Papers (1890) I. 27, I lately believd..that they would of themselves have readmitted their excluded Alderman. 1717 Lady M. W. Montague Lett. II. xliv. 24 It is easy to see in her manner, that she has lived excluded from the world. 1860 Mill Repr. Govt. (1865) 22/2 The interest of the excluded is always in danger of being over⁓looked. 1879 Green Read. Eng. Hist. xvii. 83 The excluded monks. |
b. excluded middle, third: (see quots.)
| 1837–8 Sir W. Hamilton Logic (1860) I. 83 The principle of Excluded Third or Middle—viz. between two contradictories—enounces that condition of thought, which compels us, of two repugnant notions, which cannot both coexist, to think either the one or the other as existing. 1849 Abp. Thomson Laws Th. 295. 1884 tr. Lotze's Logic 10 Every physical enquiry employs the logical principles of Identity and Excluded Middle for the attainment of its results. |