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Webster 1913 Edition
Except
Ex-cept′
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Excepted
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Excepting
.] [L.
exceptus
, p. p. of excipere
to take or draw out, to except; ex
out + capere
to take: cf. F. excepter
. See Capable
.] 1.
To take or leave out (anything) from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit.
Who never touched
The
The
excepted
tree. Milton.
Wherein (if we only
except
the unfitness of the judge) all other things concurred. Bp. Stillingfleet.
2.
To object to; to protest against.
[Obs.]
Shak.
Ex-cept′
,Verb.
I.
To take exception; to object; – usually followed by to, sometimes by against;
as, to
. except
to a witness or his testimonyExcept thou wilt
except
against my love. Shakespeare
Ex-cept′
,p
rep.
[Originally past participle, or verb in the imperative mode.]
With exclusion of; leaving or left out; excepting.
Excepting, except, but, and save are exclusive. Except marks exclusion more pointedly. “I have finished all the letters except one,” is more marked than “I have finished all the letters but one.” Excepting is the same as except, but less used. Save is chiefly found in poetry. Besides (lit., by the side of) is in the nature of addition. “There is no one here except or but him,” means, take him away and there is nobody present. “There is nobody here besides him,” means, he is present and by the side of, or in addition to, him is nobody. “Few ladies, except her Majesty, could have made themselves heard.” In this example, besides should be used, not except.
Ex-cept′
(ĕk-sĕpt′)
, c
onj.
Unless; if it be not so that.
And he said, I will not let thee go,
except
thou bless me. Gen. xxxii. 26.
But yesterday you never opened lip,
Except
, indeed, to drink. Tennyson.
☞ As a conjunction unless has mostly taken the place of except.
Webster 1828 Edition
Except
EXCEPT'
,Verb.
T.
1.
To take or leave out of any number specified; to exclude; as, of the thirty persons present and concerned in a riot, we must except two.2.
To take or leave out any particular or particulars, from a general description.When he saith, all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted who did put all things under him. 1 Cor.14.
EXCEPT'
,Verb.
I.
EXCEPT'
,pp.
Definition 2024
except
except
English
Alternative forms
- excepte (rare or archaic)
Verb
except (third-person singular simple present excepts, present participle excepting, simple past and past participle excepted)
- (transitive) To exclude; to specify as being an exception.
- 2007, Glen Bowersock, ‘Provocateur’, London Review of Books 29:4, page 17:
- But this [ban on circumcision] must have been a provocation, as the emperor Antoninus Pius later acknowledged by excepting the Jews.
- 2007, Glen Bowersock, ‘Provocateur’, London Review of Books 29:4, page 17:
- (intransitive) To take exception, to object (to or against).
- to except to a witness or his testimony
- Shakespeare
- Except thou wilt except against my love.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, vol.1, New York Review Books 2001, p.312:
- Yea, but methinks I hear some man except at these words […].
- 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial, Penguin 2005, page 23:
- The Athenians might fairly except against the practise of Democritus to be buried up in honey; as fearing to embezzle a great commodity of their Countrey
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, page 96:
- he was a great lover of music, and perhaps, had he lived in town, might have passed for a connoisseur; for he always excepted against the finest compositions of Mr Handel.
Translations
to exclude
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to take exception, to object to
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Preposition
except
- With the exception of; but.
- There was nothing in the cupboard except a tin of beans.
- 2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891:
- One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.
Synonyms
Derived terms
- except for
- except for opinion
Translations
with the exception of
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Conjunction
except
- With the exception (that); used to introduce a clause, phrase or adverb forming an exception or qualification to something previously stated.
- You look a bit like my sister, except she has longer hair. I never made fun of her except teasingly.
- 1909, Archibald Marshall, The Squire's Daughter, chapterII:
- "I don't want to spoil any comparison you are going to make," said Jim, "but I was at Winchester and New College." ¶ "That will do," said Mackenzie. "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. Then I ran away and sold papers in the streets, and anything else that I could pick up a few coppers by—except steal. […]."
- 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 2, in A Cuckoo in the Nest:
- Mother […] considered that the exclusiveness of Peter's circle was due not to its distinction, but to the fact that it was an inner Babylon of prodigality and whoredom, from which every Kensingtonian held aloof, except on the conventional tip-and-run excursions in pursuit of shopping, tea and theatres.
- (archaic) Unless; used to introduce a hypothetical case in which an exception may exist.
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke IX:
- And they sayde: We have no moo but five loves and two fisshes, except we shulde goo and bye meate for all this people.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York 2001, p.106:
- Offensive wars, except the cause be very just, I will not allow of.
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke IX:
Quotations
- For usage examples of this term, see Citations:except.
Translations
with the exception that
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