Definition of except

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Except (v. i.) To take exception; to object; -- usually followed by to, sometimes by against; as, to except to a witness or his testimony..

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Irrecusable :: Irrecusable (a.) Not liable to exception or rejection.
Aurochs :: Aurochs (n.) The European bison (Bison bonasus, / Europaeus), once widely distributed, but now nearly extinct, except where protected in the Lithuanian forests, and perhaps in the Caucasus. It is distinct from the Urus of Caesar, with which it has often been confused..
Singular :: Singular (a.) Distinguished as existing in a very high degree; rarely equaled; eminent; extraordinary; exceptional; as, a man of singular gravity or attainments..
Discretionary :: Discretionary () Left to discretion; unrestrained except by discretion or judgment; as, an ambassador with discretionary powers..
Exempt :: Exempt (a.) Free, or released, from some liability to which others are subject; excepted from the operation or burden of some law; released; free; clear; privileged; -- (with from): not subject to; not liable to; as, goods exempt from execution; a person exempt from jury service..
Wich :: Wich (n.) A street; a village; a castle; a dwelling; a place of work, or exercise of authority; -- now obsolete except in composition; as, bailiwick, Warwick, Greenwick..
Exceptive :: Exceptive (a.) That excepts; including an exception; as, an exceptive proposition..
Both :: Both (a. or pron.) The one and the other; the two; the pair, without exception of either..
Negation :: Negation (adv.) Description or definition by denial, exclusion, or exception; statement of what a thing is not, or has not, from which may be inferred what it is or has..
Invertebrata :: Invertebrata (n. pl.) A comprehensive division of the animal kingdom, including all except the Vertebrata..
Except :: Except (v. t.) To take or leave out (anything) from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit.
Unexceptionable :: Unexceptionable (a.) Not liable to any exception or objection; unobjectionable; faultless; good; excellent; as, a man of most unexceptionable character..
Gunroom :: Gunroom (n.) An apartment on the after end of the lower gun deck of a ship of war, usually occupied as a messroom by the commissioned officers, except the captain; -- called wardroom in the United States navy..
Exceptionable :: Exceptionable (a.) Liable to exception or objection; objectionable.
But :: But (adv. & conj.) Except with; unless with; without.
But :: But (adv. & conj.) Excepting or excluding the fact that; save that; were it not that; unless; -- elliptical, for but that..
Reclaim :: Reclaim (v. i.) To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.
Saving :: Saving (participle) With the exception of; except; excepting; also, without disrespect to..
Lag :: Lag (a.) Last; long-delayed; -- obsolete, except in the phrase lag end..
Solitaire :: Solitaire (n.) A game which one person can play alone; -- applied to many games of cards, etc.; also, to a game played on a board with pegs or balls, in which the object is, beginning with all the places filled except one, to remove all but one of the pieces by jumping, as in draughts..
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