Vocabulary Word
Word: preclude
Definition: make impossible; prevent; exclude; eliminate
Definition: make impossible; prevent; exclude; eliminate
Sentences Containing 'preclude'
``This communication,''continued the procureur, in that cold and decisive tone which seemed at once to preclude all discussion,``will, we are sure, meet with your approbation.''
But that it might not appear to preclude altogether the common people of one' parish from ever establishing themselves with security in another, it appointed four other ways by which a settlement might be gained without any notice delivered or published.
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