- (n.) The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule.
- (n.) An objection, oral or written, taken, in the course of an action, as to bail or security; or as to the decision of a judge, in the course of a trail or in his charge to a jury; or as to lapse of time or scandal, impertinence or insufficiency in a pleading; also, as in conveyancing, a clause by which the grantor excepts something before granted.
- (n.) An objection; cavil; dissent; disapprobation; offense; cause of offense; -- usually followed by to or against.
- (n.) That which is excepted or taken out from others; a person, thing or case, specified as distinct or not included; as, almost every general rule has its exceptions.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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