EXCEPTS
Verb
excepts
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of except
Anagrams
• expects
Source: Wiktionary
EXCEPT
Ex*cept", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Excepted; p. pr. & vb. n. Excepting.]
Etym: [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.
Who never touched The excepted tree. Milton.
Wherein (if we only except the unfitness of the judge) all other
things concurred. Bp. Stillingfleet.
2. To object to; to protest against. [Obs.] Shak.
Ex*cept", v. i.
Definition: 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.
Ex*cept", prep. Etym: [Originally past participle, or verb in the
imperative mode.]
Definition: With exclusion of; leaving or left out; excepting.
God and his Son except, Created thing naught valued he nor . . .
shunned. Milton.
Syn.
– Except, Excepting, But, Save, Besides. Excepting, except, but,
and save are exclusive. Except marks exclusion more pointedly. "I
have finished all the letters except one," is more marked than "I
have finished all the letters but one." Excepting is the same as
except, but less used. Save is chiefly found in poetry. Besides
(lit., by the side of) is in the nature of addition. "There is no one
here except or but him," means, take him away and there is nobody
present. "There is nobody here besides him," means, hi is present and
by the side of, or in addition to, him is nobody. "Few ladies, except
her Majesty, could have made themselves heard." In this example,
besides should be used, not except.
Ex*cept", conj.
Definition: Unless; if it be not so that.
And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. Gen.
xxxii. 26.
But yesterday you never opened lip, Except, indeed, to drink.
Tennyson.
Note: As a conjunction unless has mostly taken the place of except.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition