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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Excepting \Ex*cept"ing\, prep. & conj., but properly a participle. With rejection or exception of excluding; except. ``Excepting your worship's presence.'' --Shak. No one was ever yet made utterly miserable, excepting by himself. --Lubbock. 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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