To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; a knock loudly.
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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.
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To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; a knock loudly.
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To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate.
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To break or dash in pieces; to demolish; as, to elide the force of an argument.
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To dispossess by a judicial process; to dispossess by paramount right or claim of such right; to eject; to oust.
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Excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church.
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To cast out, as a devil, evil spirits, etc., by conjuration or summoning by a holy name, or by certain ceremonies; to expel (a demon) or to conjure (…
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To exile by ostracism; to banish by a popular vote, as at Athens.
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To expel, or cause to separate, from a church; to excommunicate.
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To refuse to allow; to deny the force or validity of; to disown and reject; as, the judge disallowed the executor's charge.
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To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty.
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To drive or force out from that within which anything is contained, inclosed, or situated; to eject; as to expel air from a bellows.
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To quench; to put out, as a light or fire; to stifle; to cause to die out; to put an end to; to destroy; as, to extinguish a flame, or life, or love,…
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To forbid; to prohibit or debar; as, to interdict intercourse with foreign nations.
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To care; to desire.
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Blame; cause of blame; fault; crime; offense.
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A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a girl or a woman who has not been married. See Mistress, 5.
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One of a class of water spirits, commonly described as of a mischievous disposition.
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To go before; to precede; hence, to go before as a guide; to direct.
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To forbid by authority; to interdict; as, God prohibited Adam from eating of the fruit of a certain tree; we prohibit a person from doing a thing, an…
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To doom to destruction; to put out of the protection of law; to outlaw; to exile; as, Sylla and Marius proscribed each other's adherents.
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An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.
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The act of ejecting or casting out; discharge; expulsion; evacuation.
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The act of ejecting or casting out; discharge; expulsion; evacuation.
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One who, or that which, ejects or dispossesses.
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One who, or that which, ejects or dispossesses.
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The act of excluding, or of shutting out, whether by thrusting out or by preventing admission; a debarring; rejection; prohibition; the state of bein…
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The act of excluding, or of shutting out, whether by thrusting out or by preventing admission; a debarring; rejection; prohibition; the state of bein…
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Having the power of preventing entrance; debarring from participation or enjoyment; possessed and enjoyed to the exclusion of others; as, exclusive b…
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Having the power of preventing entrance; debarring from participation or enjoyment; possessed and enjoyed to the exclusion of others; as, exclusive b…
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A piece of wood, metal, or other material, long in proportion to its breadth or thickness, used as a lever and for various other purposes, but especi…
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To cut off from entrance, as if by a bar or barrier; to preclude; to hinder from approach, entry, or enjoyment; to shut out or exclude; to deny or re…
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To expel; to dismiss; to cast forth; to thrust or drive out; to discharge; as, to eject a person from a room; to eject a traitor from the country; to…
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To take or leave out (anything) from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit.
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To let go; to leave unmentioned; not to insert or name; to drop.
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To suffer to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration; to receive; to take; as, they were into his house; t…
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To suffer to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration; to receive; to take; as, they were into his house; t…
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To confine within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell.
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To confine within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell.
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