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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
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 testimony
.
Except 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.
Syn. –
Except
,
Excepting
,
But
,
Save
,
Besides
.
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.
[L. excipio; ex and capio, to take. See Caption, Capture.]
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.
To object; to make an objection or objections; usually followed by to; sometimes by against. I except to a witness, or to his testimony, on account of his interest or partiality.

EXCEPT'

,
pp.
Contracted from excepted. Taken out; not included. All were involved in this affair, except one; that is, one excepted, the case absolute or independent clause. Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish; that is, except this fact, that ye repent, or this fact being excepted, removed, taken away, ye shall all likewise perish. Or except may be considered as the imperative mode. Except, thou or ye, this fact, ye shall all likewise perish. Hence except is equivalent to without, unless, and denotes exclusion.

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