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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.


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              Who never touched
              The excepted tree.                    --Milton.
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              Wherein (if we only except the unfitness of the
              judge) all other things concurred.    --Bp.
                                                    Stillingfleet.
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     2. To object to; to protest against. [Obs.] --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Excepting \Ex*cept"ing\, prep. & conj., but properly a
     participle.
     With rejection or exception of; excluding; except. "Excepting
     your worship's presence." --Shak.
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           No one was ever yet made utterly miserable, excepting
           by himself.                              --Lubbock.
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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  33 Moby Thesaurus words for "excepting":
     aside from, bar, barring, beside, besides, but, discounting, ex,
     except, except for, except that, exception taken of, excluding,
     exclusive of, from, if not, leaving out, less, let alone, minus,
     not counting, off, omitting, outside of, precluding, save,
     save and except, saving, than, unless, unless that, were it not,
     without
  
  

















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