excepting
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
Except \Ex*cept"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Excepted; p. pr. & vb. n. Excepting.] [L. exceptus, p. p. of excipere to take or draw out, to except; ex out + capere to take: cf. F. 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. [1913 Webster]
Who never touched The excepted tree.— Milton.[1913 Webster]
Wherein (if we only except the unfitness of the judge) all other things concurred.— Bp. Stillingfleet.[1913 Webster]
2.To object to; to protest against. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Excepting \Ex*cept"ing\, prep. & conj., but properly a participle. With rejection or exception of; excluding; except. "Excepting your worship's presence." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
No one was ever yet made utterly miserable, excepting by himself. --Lubbock. [1913 Webster]