a. [ad. late L. exclūsōri-us, f. exclūs- ppl. stem of exclūdĕre: see EXCLUDE v. and -ORY.] Having the power or the function of excluding; tending to exclude; = EXCLUSIVE A. 1. Const. of.
1585. Bonner, in Burnet, Hist. Ref., II. 179. To put out the Term peremptory, and other that were exclusory of further disputations.
1654. ‘Palæmon,’ Friendship, 25. ’Twere extreamly tedious to run over all the Vices and shew how they were particularly exclusory of Friendship.
1721–1800. in Bailey.
1865. Daily Tel., 4 Nov., 4/5. The exclusory laws were the result of the narrowest and most exasperating religious intolerance.
