Except
Except , transitive verb
[Latin exceptus, past participle of excipere to take or draw out, to except; ex out + capere to take: compare French 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.
Wherein (if we only except the unfitness of the judge) all other things concurred.
2.
To object to; to protest against. [Obsolete] — Shakespeare
Except , intransitive verb
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.
Except , preposition
[Originally past participle, or verb in the imperative mode.]
With exclusion of; leaving or left out; excepting.
God and his Son except,
Created thing naught valued he nor... shunned.
Except (ek*sept") , conjunction
Unless; if it be not so that.
And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
But yesterday you never opened lip,
Except, indeed, to drink.
As a conjunction unless has mostly taken the place of except.