'Except' definitions:

Definition of 'except'

From: WordNet
verb
Take exception to; "he demurred at my suggestion to work on Saturday" [syn: demur, except]
verb
Prevent from being included or considered or accepted; "The bad results were excluded from the report"; "Leave off the top piece" [syn: exclude, except, leave out, leave off, omit, take out] [ant: include]

Definition of 'Except'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Who never touched The excepted tree. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • Wherein (if we only except the unfitness of the judge) all other things concurred. --Bp. Stillingfleet. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To object to; to protest against. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Except'

From: GCIDE
  • Except \Ex*cept"\ ([e^]k*s[e^]pt"), conj. Unless; if it be not so that. [1913 Webster]
  • And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. --Gen. xxxii. 26. [1913 Webster]
  • But yesterday you never opened lip, Except, indeed, to drink. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: As a conjunction unless has mostly taken the place of except. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Except'

From: GCIDE
  • Except \Ex*cept"\, v. i. To take exception; to object; -- usually followed by to, sometimes by against; as, to except to a witness or his testimony. [1913 Webster]
  • Except thou wilt except against my love. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Except'

From: GCIDE
  • Except \Ex*cept"\, prep. [Originally past participle, or verb in the imperative mode.] With exclusion of; leaving or left out; excepting. [1913 Webster]
  • God and his Son except, Created thing naught valued he nor . . . shunned. --Milton.
  • Syn: Except, Excepting, But, Save, Besides.
  • Usage: Excepting, except, but, and save are exclusive. Except marks exclusion more pointedly. "I have finished all the letters except one," is more marked than "I have finished all the letters but one." Excepting is the same as except, but less used. Save is chiefly found in poetry. Besides (lit., by the side of) is in the nature of addition. "There is no one here except or but him," means, take him away and there is nobody present. "There is nobody here besides him," means, he is present and by the side of, or in addition to, him is nobody. "Few ladies, except her Majesty, could have made themselves heard." In this example, besides should be used, not except. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'except'

From: Moby Thesaurus

Words containing 'Except'