Part 4007

<i>Gray.</i>

<h1>Excentricity</h1> <Xpage=520>

<hw>Ex`cen*tric"i*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt><def>. (Math.) Same as <er>Eccentricity</er>.</def>

<h1>Except</h1> <Xpage=520>

<hw>Ex*cept"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Excepted</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Excepting</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>exceptus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>excipere</ets> to take or draw out, to except; <ets>ex</ets> out + <ets>capere</ets> to take: cf. F. <ets>excepter</ets>. See <er>Capable</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To take or leave out (anything) from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit.</def>

<blockquote>Who never touched The <b>excepted</b> tree. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Wherein (if we only <b>except</b> the unfitness of the judge) all other things concurred. <i>Bp. Stillingfleet.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To object to; to protest against.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Except</h1> <Xpage=520>

<hw>Ex*cept"</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To take exception; to object; -- usually followed by <i>to</i>, sometimes by <i>against</i>; <as>as, to <ex>except</ex> to a witness or his testimony</as>.</def>

<blockquote>Except thou wilt <b>except</b> against my love. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Except</h1> <Xpage=520>

<hw>Ex*cept"</hw>, <tt>prep.</tt> <ety>[Originally past participle, or verb in the imperative mode.]</ety> <def>With exclusion of; leaving or left out; excepting.</def>

<blockquote>God and his Son <b>except</b>, <b>Created thing naught valued he nor</b> . . . <b>shunned</b>. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- <er>Except</er>, <er>Excepting</er>, <er>But</er>, <er>Save</er>, <er>Besides</er>.</syn> <usage> <i>Excepting</i>, <i>except</i>, <i>but</i>, and <i>save</i> are exclusive. <i>Except</i> marks exclusion more pointedly. "I have finished all the letters <i>except</i> one," is more marked than "I have finished all the letters <i>but</i> one." <i>Excepting</i> is the same as <i>except</i>, but less used. <i>Save</i> is chiefly found in poetry. <i>Besides</i> (lit., by the side of) is in the nature of addition. "There is no one here <i>except</i> or <i>but</i> him," means, take him away and there is nobody present. "There is nobody here <i>besides</i> him," means, hi is present and by the side of, or in addition to, him is nobody. "Few ladies, <i>except</i> her Majesty, could have made themselves heard." In this example, <i>besides</i> should be used, not <i>except</i>.</usage>

<h1>Except</h1> <Xpage=520>

<hw>Ex*cept"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>conj.</tt> <def>Unless; if it be not so that.</def>

<blockquote>And he said, I will not let thee go, <b>except</b> thou bless me. <i>Gen. xxxii. 26.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>But yesterday you never opened lip, <b>Except</b>, indeed, to drink. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<note>&hand; As a conjunction <i>unless</i> has mostly taken the place of <i>except</i>.</note>

<h1>Exceptant</h1> <Xpage=520>

<hw>Ex*cept"ant</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Making exception.</def>

<h1>Excepting</h1> <Xpage=520>

<hw>Ex*cept"ing</hw>, <tt>prep. & conj.</tt><def>, but properly a <i>participle</i>. With rejection or exception of; excluding; except.</def> "<i>Excepting</i> your worship's presence."

<i>Shak.</i>

<blockquote>No one was ever yet made utterly miserable, <b>excepting</b> by himself. <i>Lubbock.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Exception</h1> <Xpage=520>