except

except
except1
/ik sept"/, prep.
1. with the exclusion of; excluding; save; but: They were all there except me.
2. except for, if it were not for: She would travel more except for lack of money.
3. only; with the exception (usually fol. by that): parallel cases except that one is younger than the other.
4. otherwise than; but (fol. by an adv., phrase, or clause): well fortified except here.
5. Archaic. unless.
[1350-1400; ME: orig., ptp. adj. < L exceptus (ptp. of excipere to take out), equiv. to ex- EX-1 + -ceptus (comb. form of captus, ptp. of capere to take)]
Syn. 1. EXCEPT (more rarely EXCEPTING), BUT, SAVE point out something excluded from a general statement. EXCEPT emphasizes the excluding: Take any number except 12. BUT merely states the exclusion: We ate all but one. SAVE is now mainly found in poetic use: nothing in sight save sky and sea.
except2
exceptable, adj.
/ik sept"/, v.t.
1. to exclude; leave out: present company excepted.
v.i.
2. to object (usually fol. by to or against): to except to a statement; to except against a witness.
[1350-1400; ME excepten < MF excepter < L exceptare, deriv. of exceptus (see EXCEPT1)]

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