excluder
(ɛkˈskluːdə(r))
[f. exclude + -er1.]
One who or that which excludes or shuts out. b. spec. One who attempts to exclude a candidate from office by voting against him; esp. one who voted for the Exclusion Bill (exclusion 1 b).
| 1670 G. H. Hist. Cardinals iii. ii. 276 They left no stone unturned, that might mollifie the excluders, and prevail with them to give their votes for Montalto. 1685 Addr. Middlesex Just. of Peace in Lond. Gaz. No. 2010/4 The race of Regicides and Excluders (who Murthered the Royal Martyr your Father). 1848 Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 476 The grand jury of Suffolk expressed a hope that the parliament would proscribe all the excluders. |