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Mudejar (iou) and preclude (medicine)


Mudejar (iou)



Mudejar adjective & noun. . M19.
[Spanish from Arab. mudajjan pass. pple of dajjana allow to stay.]
(Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of) a subject Muslim during the reconquest of the Iberian peninsula from the Moors who was allowed to retain Islamic laws and Religion in return for owing allegiance and paying tribute to a Christian monarch; spec. (designating) a partly Islamic, partly Gothic style of architecture and decorative Art of the 12th to the 15th cents.

preclude (medicine)


preclude


1. To put a barrier before; hence, to shut out; to hinder; to stop; to impede. "The valves preclude the blood from entering the veins." (E. Darwin)

2. To shut out by anticipative action; to prevent or hinder by necessary consequence or implication; to deter action of, access to, Employment of, etc.; to render ineffectual; to obviate by anticipation. "This much will obviate and preclude the objections." (Bentley)

Origin: L. Praecludere, praeclusum; prae = before + claudere to shut. See Close.

Source: Websters Dictionary