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lowance for interest; as, the banks discount notes and bills of exchange. Discount only unexceptionable paper. Walsh.

To take exception; to object; -- usually followed by to, sometimes by against; as, to except to a witness or his testimony. Except thou wilt except against my love. Shak.

Making exception.

, but properly a participle. With rejection or exception of; excluding; except. "Excepting your worship's presence." Shak. No one was ever yet made utterly miserable, excepting by himself. Lubbock.

Disposed or apt to take exceptions, or to object; captious. [Obs.] At least effectually silence the doubtful and exceptious. South. -- Ex*cep"tious*ness, n. [Obs.] Barrow.

That excepts; including an exception; as, an exceptive proposition. I. Watts. A particular and exceptive law. Milton.

Not exceptional; usual. [Obs.] My general and exceptless rashness. Shak.

One who takes exceptions. T. Burnet.

Taking an exception.

Extraordinary; exceptional. [Obs.] Chapman.

An exception. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

To deprive of anything exceptionable; as, to geld a book, or a story; to expurgate. [Obs.] Dryden.

consists in a a narration by one person of matters told him by another. It is, with a few exceptions, inadmissible as testimony. Abbott.

copied, or counterfeited; beyond imitation; surpassingly excellent; matchless; unrivaled; exceptional; unique; as, an inimitable style; inimitable eloquence. "Inimitable force." Dryden. Performing such inimitable feats. Cowper. -- In*im"i*ta*ble*ness, n. -- In*im"i*ta*bly, adv.

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.

Not liable to exception or rejection. Sir W. Hamilton.

course of things, or in accordance with the laws which govern events, feelings, etc.; not exceptional or violent; legitimate; normal; regular; as, the natural consequence of crime; a natural death. What can be more natural than the circumstances in the behavior of those women who had lost their husbands on this fatal d…

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.

ly and strictly than was formerly done, and who maintain that these laws admit of no real exceptions. --Ne`o*gram*mat"ic*al (#), a.

An exception taken against a plaintiff in a cause, when he is unable legally to commence a suit.