Definition of exception

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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..

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Exceptional :: Exceptional (a.) Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare; hence, better than the average; superior..
Reserve :: Reserve (n.) That which is excepted; exception.
Universally :: Universally (adv.) In a universal manner; without exception; as, God's laws are universally binding on his creatures..
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..
Exceptant :: Exceptant (a.) Making exception.
Exception :: Exception (n.) An objection; cavil; dissent; disapprobation; offense; cause of offense; -- usually followed by to or against.
Aberrant :: Aberrant (a.) Deviating from the ordinary or natural type; exceptional; abnormal.
Whole :: Whole (n.) The entire thing; the entire assemblage of parts; totality; all of a thing, without defect or exception; a thing complete in itself..
Saving :: Saving (n.) Exception; reservation.
Bating :: Bating (prep.) With the exception of; excepting.
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..
Unlimited :: Unlimited (a.) Undefined; indefinite; not bounded by proper exceptions; as, unlimited terms..
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..
Challenge :: Challenge (n.) An exception to a person as not legally qualified to vote. The challenge must be made when the ballot is offered.
Exception :: 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..
Challenge :: Challenge (n.) To take exception to; question; as, to challenge the accuracy of a statement or of a quotation..
Excepting :: Excepting (prep. & conj., but properly a participle) With rejection or exception of; excluding; except..
Geld :: Geld (v. t.) To deprive of anything exceptionable; as, to geld a book, or a story; to expurgate..
Challenge :: Challenge (n.) An exception to a juror or to a member of a court martial, coupled with a demand that he should be held incompetent to act; the claim of a party that a certain person or persons shall not sit in trial upon him or his cause..
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..
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