Lexic.us

Definition of Except

1. Verb. Take exception to. "He demurred at my suggestion to work on Saturday"

2. Verb. Prevent from being included or considered or accepted. "Leave off the top piece"

Definition of Except

1. v. t. To take or leave out (anything) from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit.

2. v. i. To take exception; to object; -- usually followed by to, sometimes by against; as, to except to a witness or his testimony.

3. prep. With exclusion of; leaving or left out; excepting.

4. conj. Unless; if it be not so that.

Definition of Except

1. Verb. (transitive) To exclude; to specify as being an exception. ¹

2. Verb. (intransitive) To take exception, to object ('''to''' or '''against'''). ¹

3. Preposition. With the exception of; but. ¹

4. Conjunction. With the exception (that); used to introduce a clause, phrase or adverb forming an exception or qualification to something previously stated. ¹

5. Conjunction. (archaic) Unless; used to introduce a hypothetical case in which an exception may exist. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Except

1. to leave out [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Except

1. 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. Origin: L. Exceptus, p. P. Of excipere to take or draw out, to except; ex out + capere to take: cf. F. Excepter. See Capable. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Except

excellento excellest excelleth excelling excels excelsior excelsior matting excelsiors excementosis excentral

excentric excentric amputation excentrical excentricities excentricity except (current term) exceptant excepted excepting exceptio beneficium ordinis seu excussionis

exceptio metus exceptio non numeratae pecuniae exceptio quod metus causa exception exception that proves the rule exceptionable exceptionableness exceptionably exceptional exceptional(a)

Literary usage of Except

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1860)
"Not very dangerous, except to those that are careless. But withal he blushed as he spake. CHR. Then said Christian to Hopeful, Let us not stir a step, ..."

2. The woman in white by Wilkie Collins (1871)
"It has not done so—except in the instance of Mr. Hartright himself. " Having stated his opinion—so far, that is to say, as acute nervous suffering will ..."

3. Utopia by Thomas More (1869)
"... they preach, except they be fent. This is the fote of the ladder, fo that we maye go ... except ..."

4. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Henry Dale, Thomas Arnold (1873)
"there was no diminution of hi» army (except by disease), but accessions to it ; for many of the independent Thracians, though uninvited, followed him for ..."

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