Ex*clu"sion*a*ry (?), a. Tending to exclude; causing exclusion; exclusive.
Ex*clu"sion*ism (?), n. The character, manner, or principles of an exclusionist.
Ex*clu"sion*ist, n. One who would exclude another from some right or privilege; esp., one of the anti- popish politicians of the time of Charles II.
Ex*clu"sive (?) a. [Cf. F. exclusif.] 1. Having the power of preventing entrance; debarring from participation or enjoyment; possessed and enjoyed to the exclusion of others; as, exclusive bars; exclusive privilege; exclusive circles of society.
2. Not taking into the account; excluding from consideration; -- opposed to inclusive; as, five thousand troops, exclusive of artillery.
Ex*clu"sive, n. One of a coterie who exclude others; one who from real of affected fastidiousness limits his acquaintance to a select few.
Ex*clu"sive*ness, n. Quality of being exclusive.
Ex*clu"siv*ism (?), n. The act or practice of excluding being exclusive; exclusiveness.
Ex*clu"siv*ist, n. One who favor or practices any from of exclusiveness or exclusivism.
The field of Greek mythology . . . the favorite sporting ground of the exclusivists of the solar theory.
Gladstone.
Ex*clu"so*ry (?), a. [L. exclusorius.] Able to exclude; excluding; serving to exclude.
Ex*coct" (?) v. t. [L. excoctus, p. p. of excoquere to excoct. See 3d Cook.] To boil out; to produce by boiling. [Obs.] Bacon.
Ex*coc"tion (?). [L. excoctio.] The act of excocting or boiling out. [Obs.] Bacon.
Ex*cog"i*tate (?) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Excogitated (#); p. pr. & vb. n.. Excogitating.] [L. excogitatus, p. p. of excogitare to excogitate; ex out + cogitare to think. See Cogitate.] To think out; to find out or discover by thinking; to devise; to contrive. "Excogitate strange arts." Stirling.
This evidence . . . thus excogitated out of the general theory.
Whewell.
Ex*cog"i*tate, v. i. To cogitate. [R.] Bacon.
Ex*cog`i*ta"tion (?), n. [L. excogitatio: cf. F. excogitation.] The act of excogitating; a devising in the thoughts; invention; contrivance.
Ex`com*mune" (?) v. t. [Cf. F. excommuier. See Excommunicate.] To exclude from participation in; to excommunicate. [Obs.]