3 definitions found 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. [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] 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. [1913 Webster] No one was ever yet made utterly miserable, excepting by himself. --Lubbock. [1913 Webster] 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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