Hypertext Webster Gateway: "excepted"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
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