exception

[Fr., from Lat. exceptio, from except us, pa. par. of excipio =to take out, to except.] I. Ordinary Language: 1. The act of excepting, excluding, or omitting from a number, rule, position, category, .; exclusion, omi ion. "When God renewed this charter of man's sovreignty over the creatures to Noah and his family, we find no exception at all."- South . 2. The state of being excepted, excluded, or omitted from a number, rule, position, category, . "There is no exception or pretence of privilege, which high or low, rich or poor, may or ought to usurp unto themselves."-Calvin: Four Godly Sermons, ser. 1. "If, either in his directions or decisions, he [the judge] mi tates the law by ignorance, inadvertence, or design, the counsel on either side may require him publicly to seal a bill of exceptions ; stating the point wherein he is supposed to err. This bill of exceptions is in the nature of an appeal; examinable, not in the court out of which the record i ues for the trial at nisi prius , but in the next immediate superior court, upon error brought, after judgment given in the court below." - Black stone : Commen taries , bk. iii., ch. 12. (2) To take exception : ( a ) To make an objection, to object; to find fault; followed formerly by against , now by to. "He gave Sir James Tirrel great thanks; but took exception to the place of their burial, being too base for them that were king's children." -Bacon . (b) To take offense or umbrage; to be offended; followed by at : as, to take exception at a remark. ěx-çěp'-tion-a-ble, a. [Eng. exception ; -able .] 1. Liable or open to exception or objection; objectionable. 2. Exceptional, unusual. "The only piece of pleasantry in Milton is where the evil spirits rally the angels upon the succe of their artillery: this pa age I look upon to be the most excep tion able in the whole poem." - Add is on : Spectator , No. 279. ěx-çěp'-tion-a-ble-ne , s . [Eng. exception able ; -ne .] The quality or state of being exceptionable.