Except \Ex*cept"\, v. 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.
But for some of us, Sen. Goldwater apparently excepted, life's experiences bring growth and change and even second thoughts about one's early enthusiasms.
Most European countries, France excepted, plan to spend below Britain's projected level. In the absence of a clear pan-European foreign policy framework no one can tell whether these amounts are sufficient.
Requiring arbitration for excepted workers "would undermine the structure" of the law, that court said.