Definition of exception

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Exception (n.) The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule..

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Exception :: Exception (n.) An objection, oral or written, taken, in the course of an action, as to bail or security; or as to the decision of a judge, in the course of a trail, or in his charge to a jury; or as to lapse of time, or scandal, impertinence, or insufficiency in a pleading; also, as in conveyancing, a clause by which the grantor excepts something before granted..
Categorical :: Categorical (a.) Not hypothetical or relative; admitting no conditions or exceptions; declarative; absolute; positive; express; as, a categorical proposition, or answer..
Straight :: Straight (superl.) Making no exceptions or deviations in one's support of the organization and candidates of a political party; as, a straight Republican; a straight Democrat; also, containing the names of all the regularly nominated candidates of a party and no others; as, a straight ballot..
Rule :: Rule (a.) A general principle concerning the formation or use of words, or a concise statement thereof; thus, it is a rule in England, that s or es , added to a noun in the singular number, forms the plural of that noun; but man forms its plural men, and is an exception to the rule..
Bar :: Bar (n.) To except; to exclude by exception.
Exceptious :: Exceptious (a.) Disposed or apt to take exceptions, or to object; captious..
Saving :: Saving (participle) With the exception of; except; excepting; also, without disrespect to..
Inimitable :: Inimitable (a.) Not capable of being imitated, copied, or counterfeited; beyond imitation; surpassingly excellent; matchless; unrivaled; exceptional; unique; as, an inimitable style; inimitable eloquence..
Bating :: Bating (prep.) With the exception of; excepting.
Exceptionable :: Exceptionable (a.) Liable to exception or objection; objectionable.
Reserve :: Reserve (n.) That which is excepted; exception.
Excipient :: Excipient (v. t.) Taking an exception.
Saving :: Saving (a.) Making reservation or exception; as, a saving clause..
Aberrant :: Aberrant (a.) Deviating from the ordinary or natural type; exceptional; abnormal.
Iridium :: Iridium (n.) A rare metallic element, of the same group as platinum, which it much resembles, being silver-white, but harder, and brittle, and indifferent to most corrosive agents. With the exception of osmium, it is the heaviest substance known, its specific gravity being 22.4. Symbol Ir. Atomic weight 192.5..
Challenge :: Challenge (n.) To take exception to; question; as, to challenge the accuracy of a statement or of a quotation..
Primogeniture :: Primogeniture (a.) The exclusive right of inheritance which belongs to the eldest son. Thus in England the right of inheriting the estate of the father belongs to the eldest son, and in the royal family the eldest son of the sovereign is entitled to the throne by primogeniture. In exceptional cases, among the female children, the crown descends by right of primogeniture to the eldest daughter only and her issue..
Unexceptive :: Unexceptive (a.) Not exceptive; not including, admitting, or being, an exception..
Nonability :: Nonability (n.) An exception taken against a plaintiff in a cause, when he is unable legally to commence a suit..
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..
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