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5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Except \Ex*cept"\, 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 \Ex*cept"\, 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. ``I have finished all the letters except one,'' is more marked than ``I have finished all the letters but one.'' 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. ``There is no one here except or but him,'' means take him away and there is nobody present. ``There is nobody here besides him,'' means hi is present and by the side of or in addition to him is nobody. ``Few ladies, except her Majesty, could have made themselves heard.'' In this example, besides should be used not except. 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Except \Ex*cept"\, 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 WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: except v 1: take exception to [syn: {demur}] 2: prevent from being included or considered or accepted; "The bad results were excluded from the report"; "Leave off the top piece" [syn: {exclude}, {leave out}, {leave off}, {omit}, {take out}] [ant: {include}]
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