inclusoryadj.
/ɪnˈkluːs(ə)ri/, /ɪŋˈkluːs(ə)ri/, /ɪnˈkluːz(ə)ri/, /ɪŋˈkluːz(ə)ri/, U.S. /ᵻnˈklus(ə)ri/, /ɪŋˈklus(ə)ri/, /ᵻnˈkluz(ə)ri/, /ɪŋˈkluz(ə)ri/ rare.
Having the function of including or incorporating various elements or aspects of something; tending to include; inclusive.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > incorporation or inclusion > [adjective]
incorporative1592
comprising1603
including1611
inclusive1622
inclusory1775
1775 N. W. Wraxall Cursory Remarks Tour N. Europe 360 Dedicating it to the..Trinity, the..Virgin, and St. Bernard. These inclusory dedications were common in most countries.
1852 A. Heasell England's Church & England's Hope 6 The supreme exclusory and inclusory power certainly implied in the expression ‘the key of David’ and divinely assigned to the Lord Jesus Christ.
1961 Gastonia (N. Carolina) Daily Gaz. 5 Oct. 6/2 The bill was so liberalized, so shored up with inclusory clauses, that a county, town, or area had little difficulty meeting the stipulations.
1986 Harvard Law Rev. 100 36 The civic republican tradition is deeply..participatory, conversational, inclusory, reasonable, and strongly committed to immediacy.
2012 N. Luhmann Theory of Soc. II. 83 Society as a whole was exposed more and more strongly to the inclusory pull of its functional systems.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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