Disclude

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To keep someone or something out or away from a place, group, or situation
2. To prevent participation or inclusion by deliberately excluding from access or involvement
3. To bar or prevent entry to someone or something by an act of exclusion

Etymology: The verb "disclude" is a rare survivor from Latin, and its meaning has changed very little in the centuries it has been in use. It came into English through Middle English "discluden", which was borrowed from the Latin "disclūdere", a compound of "dis-" meaning "apart" and "claudere" meaning "to shut" or "close". Its original sense is literally "to shut apart" or "to keep separate", and the English verb kept that core idea of keeping things apart from one another. Because the word stayed so close to its Latin roots, it has an unusual transparency. Its sibling "exclude" follows the same pattern, with "ex-" meaning "out" in place of "dis-", so "disclude" and "exclude" share the same stem of shutting. "Include" is a relative as well, sharing the "claudere" root with the opposite sense of shutting in.