Crossword clues for excepted
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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.]
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To take or leave out (anything) from 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. To object to; to protest against. [Obs.]
--Shak.
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vb. (en-past of: except)
Usage examples of "excepted".
Man becomes amorous through the senses, which, touch excepted, all reside in the head.
He spent the whole afternoon in uttering complaints against the sovereigns of Europe, the King of Prussia excepted, as he had made him a baron, though I never could make out why.
Everybody played as before, the abbe excepted, and he, to my huge delight, did not put in an appearance at all, but his place was supplied by a canon, who punted a ducat at a time and had a pile of ducats before him.
A man does not like to prove such a truth, Byron excepted from the category, jealousy.
The boxes were all taken in three days, and a Jew took the pit, two nights a week excepted, which I reserved for my own profit.
When we alighted we wished each other good night, and everybody retired to his or her room, myself excepted, for I spent several happy hours with Clementine, which I can never forget.
My companions in misery proceeded to dine on bad garlic soup and wretched bread, washed down by plain water, two priests and an individual who was styled corregidor excepted, and they seemed to fare very well.
These five numbers were very profitable to the Lottery of Naples, for everyone, myself excepted, rushed to get them.
Pagans were reluctantly indulged in the exercise of their superstition, the rank of Julian would have excepted him from the general toleration.
These men, thus excepted from the saving grace of the crown, now occupy the highest places in Faneuil Hall, and thus seem to be the highest in the reverence of the people of Boston.
In every proposed extension of the powers of Congress, that State has expressly and watchfully excepted that of meddling with the importation of negroes.