Citations:except


 * 1) (English conjunction)
 * 2) * unless
 * 3) ** 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Folio Society 2006, p. 34:
 * they seeme to have so much the lesser feare to mistake or forget themselves, which also notwithstanding being an airie bodie, and without hold-fast, may easily escape the memorie, except it be well assured.
 * 1) ** 1611, The Bible, Authorised King James Version, Church of England, Psalm 127 v1:
 * Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it ...
 * 1) ** 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 3, Landlord Edmund
 * How then, it may be asked, did this Edmund rise into favour; become to such astonishing extent a recognised Farmer's Friend? Really, except it were by doing justly and loving mercy, to an unprecedented extent, one does not know.
 * 1) (English verb)
 * 2) * (transitive)
 * 3) **2007, Glen Bowersock, ‘Provocateur’, London Review of Books 29:4, p. 17:
 * But this [ban on circumcision] must have been a provocation, as the emperor Antoninus Pius later acknowledged by excepting the Jews.
 * 1) * (intransitive)
 * 2) ** 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial, Penguin 2005, p. 23:
 * The Athenians might fairly except against the practise of Democritus to be buried up in honey; as fearing to embezzle a great commodity of their Countrey
 * 1) ** 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 96:
 * he was a great lover of music, and perhaps, had he lived in town, might have passed for a connoisseur; for he always excepted against the finest compositions of Mr Handel.