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English Dictionary: except	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
except v take exception to; "he demurred at my suggestion to work on Saturday" Synonym(s): demur, except prevent from being included or considered or accepted; "The bad results were excluded from the report"; "Leave off the top piece" Synonym(s): exclude, except, leave out, leave off, omit, take out Antonym(s): include
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Except \Except"\, conj. 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. Note: As a conjunction unless has mostly taken the place of except.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Except \Except"\, v. 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. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Except \Except"\, prep. [Originally past participle, or verb in the imperative mode.] With exclusion of; leaving or left out; excepting. God and his Son except, Created thing naught valued he nor . . . shunned. --Milton. Syn: {Except}, {Excepting}, {But}, {Save}, {Besides}. Usage: Excepting, except, but, and save are exclusive. Except* marks exclusion more pointedly. [bd]I have finished all the letters except one,[b8] is more marked than [bd]I have finished all the letters but one.[b8] 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. [bd]There is no one here except or but him,[b8] means, take him away and there is nobody present. [bd]There is nobody here besides him,[b8] means, hi is present and by the side of, or in addition to, him is nobody. [bd]Few ladies, except her Majesty, could have made themselves heard.[b8] In this example, besides should be used, not except.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Except \Except"\, 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.