Verb (used with object) : present company excepted. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used without object) : to except to a statement; to except against a witness. From Dictionary.com.
He represented Mecklenburg in the lower branch of the state legislature from 1778 to 1792; one term excepted, that of 1790. From Wordnik.com. [The Harris Letters] Reference
Constantinople were alone excepted from the jurisdiction of the. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference
Mr. Obama has offended no one (a silly tiff with John McCain excepted). From Wordnik.com. [October 2006] Reference
(This thread, some of its odder moments excepted, is a happy contrast to that). From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Teaching Reading Right] Reference
§6. 4 Lists of positions excepted from the competitive service - (a) Schedule A. From Wordnik.com. [EXECUTIVE ORDER 9830] Reference
He was, however, kept in rigorous confinement, and his name excepted out of every act of amnesty. From Wordnik.com. [The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel] Reference
Private equity investments, included in fair value items, significantly underperformed long term excepted return by EUR 124 million. From Wordnik.com. [MarketWatch.com - Top Stories] Reference
The Commission may, upon the request of an agency, determine that similar positions also should be excepted from the competitive service. From Wordnik.com. [EXECUTIVE ORDER 9830] Reference
Mediterranean for the protection of our commerce, and no period has intervened, a short term excepted, when it was thought advisable to withdraw it. From Wordnik.com. [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference
(i) excepted from the competitive service because of its confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating character; or. From Wordnik.com. [Balkinization] Reference
Anguillara's "Ovid" may be excepted, which is read with eagerness. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope] Reference
I can claim at most forty per cent.; the handwriting excepted, which is my own. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in Nubia] Reference
I've learned not to expect too much from romance shows, ef excepted, which is why I'm looking forward to that one. From Wordnik.com. [AnimeBlogger.net Antenna] Reference
Of the towns which I find laid down in DAnvilles maps, between Zoara and Aelana, no traces remain, Thoana excepted, which is the present. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in Syria and the Holy Land] Reference
Gerard was in no doubt as to the vocation of his visitor, for, the sword excepted, this was familiar to him as the full dress of a physician. From Wordnik.com. [The Cloister and the Hearth] Reference
89 Sword excepted, the traders who visited Honam Island reached a consensus. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876] Reference
Of the towns which I find laid down in D’Anville’s maps, between Zoara and Aelana, no traces remain, Thoana excepted, which is the present Dhana. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in Syria and the Holy Land] Reference
What art thou, that better and divine part excepted, but as. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations] Reference
No one person, Hitler excepted, was responsible for the Holocaust. From Wordnik.com. [In Defense Of Pius Xii] Reference
As a matter of fact, it was the same for everyone -- family was not excepted. From Wordnik.com. [The Loneliest Hero] Reference
Subsequently, the 19th corps was excepted form the order to return to the James. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
He's aged better, in most every sense of the word, than the other acts (Rakim excepted). From Wordnik.com. [Taking sides: The hip-hop classic we're most looking forward to at Rock the Bells] Reference
All things are put under him; undoubtedly, he is excepted, who put all things under him. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 53: 1 Corinthians The Challoner Revision] Reference
For his librarie (his owne continuations excepted,) it consists of very few or no bookes. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
His support was evenly spread among regions (map) and demographic groups, minorities excepted. From Wordnik.com. [Knowing When The Party's Over] Reference
Those corporations and government agencies that rarely engaged because it was an excepted practice. From Wordnik.com. [Ramon Nuez: The Revolution of Content Fueled by the Birth of Mobile] Reference
The last tract excepted, all the above are in a volume bequeathed by Bishop Tanner to the university of. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
The godly have found all other places, the throne of grace excepted, empty, and places that hold no water. From Wordnik.com. [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference
Finally, most businesses -- oil companies obviously excepted -- haven't passed their higher energy costs along in prices. From Wordnik.com. [Is Oil at the Tipping Point?] Reference
But make it foresight now, and assume no one will care about you as much as you do, until they actually do (groom possibly excepted). From Wordnik.com. [Carolyn Hax: Bridesmaids' mockery can hold important lesson] Reference
Nothing, however, which possessed animation could we discover, (ourselves excepted) and indeed we could scarcely be said to possess it. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810] Reference
The colony of Connecticut, whose charter was intended to be taken away by this bill, in like manner petitioned to be excepted out of it. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference
The Act establishes liability when any person or entity improperly receives from or avoids payment to the Federal government -- tax fraud excepted. From Wordnik.com. [David Isenberg: ABC J'accuse MEP: There is no there there] Reference
And all of us -- our military excepted -- have grown soft and unused to sacrifice and are going to have some adjustment issues with hot dogs and beans. From Wordnik.com. [Mayhill Fowler: Hot Dogs and Beans: Obama and the American Dream] Reference
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