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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"
Generic synonyms: Do Away With, Eliminate, Extinguish, Get Rid Of
Specialized synonyms: Elide
Derivative terms: Exception, Exclusion, Exclusive, Omissible, Omission
Antonyms: Include
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
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 ..."