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preclude, v.|prɪˈkluːd|
[ad. L. præclūd-ĕre to close, shut off, impede, f. præ, pre- A. 4 c + claudĕre to shut.]
1. trans. To close or shut up (a passage, etc.) against any attempt to pass; = foreclose 2.
1629Maxwell tr. Herodian (1635) 133 Julian's friends counselled him to advance..and preclude the Alpine Straits. 1652C. B. Stapylton Herodian 67 His friends advise he shall the Alpes preclude. 1653Waterhouse Apol. Learn. 187 Preclude your ears..against all rash, rude, irrational, innovating importuners. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 96 ⁋16 Every intellect was precluded by Prejudice. 1777Robertson Hist. Amer. II. v. 34 Having precluded every means of escape.
b. To close beforehand; = foreclose 5.
1841–4Emerson Ess., Experience Wks. (Bohn) I. 176 Shall I preclude my future, by taking a high seat, and kindly adapting my conversation to the shape of heads?
2. To ‘close the door against’, shut out, prevent the entrance of; to exclude, prevent, frustrate; to render impracticable by anticipatory action.
1618T. Adams Cosmopolite Wks. 1862 II. 143 Though the desires of his mind be granted, yet this precludes not the access of new desires to his mind. 1659in Burton's Diary (1828) IV. 320 As to precluding all complaints against excise, leave it to your Committee to bring in a Bill to remedy the inconveniences. 1692Ray Disc. iii. v. (1732) 383 If you preclude the Access of all Air. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 105 ⁋13 They hesitated till death precluded the decision. 1813Byron Corsair iii. ix, Since bar and bolt no more his steps preclude. 1868M. Pattison Academ. Org. v. 120 It may be as well to preclude misunderstanding by repeating.
3. To shut out or prevent (a person) from something by previous action: = foreclose 3.
1736Col. Rec. Pennsylv. IV. 103 That they may not be precluded or foreclosed from the benefit of the Governor's Grant. 1792Burke Let. to Sir H. Langrishe Wks. VI. 320, I do not find one word to preclude his majesty from consenting to any arrangement which parliament may make. 1800Wellesley in Owen Desp. (1877) 555 Employed in staff offices which preclude them from the performance of regimental duties. 1884Ld. Coleridge in Law Rep. 12 Q. B. Div. 322 We do not preclude the duke from his remedy..by way of action or indictment. |