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om a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit. Who never touched The excepted tree. Milton. Wherein (if we only except the unfitness of the judge) all other things concurred. Bp. Stillingfleet.

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.

The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule.

Liable to exception or objection; objectionable. -- Ex*cep"tion*a*ble*ness, n. This passage I look upon to be the most exceptionable in the whole poem. Addison.

Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare; hence, better than the average; superior. Lyell. This particular spot had exceptional advantages. Jowett (Th. ) -- Ex*cep"tion*al*ly(#), adv.

One who takes exceptions or makes objections. [Obs.] Milton.

Without exception. A universal, . . . exceptionless disqualification. Bancroft.

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.

Not liable to any exception or objection; unobjectionable; faultless; good; excellent; as, a man of most unexceptionable character. -- Un`ex*cep"tion*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un`ex*cep"tion*a*bly, adv.

Not exceptive; not including, admitting, or being, an exception.

Deviating from the ordinary or natural type; exceptional; abnormal. The more aberrant any form is, the greater must have been the number of connecting forms which, on my theory, have been exterminated. Darwin.

Exceptional. [R.] It is this power which leads on from the accidental and abjunctive to the universal. I. Taylor.

Excess; intemperance. [Obs. except in Med.] Farindon.

A period in the American eocene, the lowest in the tertiary age except the lignitic.

f the United States east of the Mississippi and north of Tennessee and Virginia, with the exception of the territory occupied by the northern Iroquoian tribes. There are nearly 100,000 Indians of the Algonquian tribes, of which the strongest are the Ojibwas (Chippewas), Ottawas, Crees, Algonquins, Micmacs, and Blackfee…

Without exception; wholly; completely. Every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Ps. xxxix. 5.