different between except vs outcept

English

Alternative forms

• excepte (rare or archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French excepter, from Latin exceptus.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?s?pt/
• IPA^(key): /?k?s?pt/
• IPA^(key): /?k?s?pt/
• Rhymes: -?pt

Verb

except (third-person singular simple present excepts, present participle excepting, simple past and past participle excepted)

1. (transitive) To exclude; to specify as being an exception.
   • 2007, Glen Bowersock, ‘Provocateur’, London Review of Books 29:4, page 17:

     But this [ban on circumcision] must have been a provocation, as the emperor Antoninus Pius later acknowledged by excepting the Jews.

2. (intransitive) To take exception, to object (to or against).
   • , vol.1, New York Review Books 2001, p.312:

     Yea, but methinks I hear some man except at these words […].

   • 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial, Penguin 2005, page 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

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, page 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.

Related terms

Translations

Preposition

except

1. with the exception of; but.

   Synonyms: apart from, except for, outtake, with the exception of

Synonyms

• see also Thesaurus:except

Derived terms

Translations

Conjunction

except

1. With the exception (that); used to introduce a clause, phrase or adverb forming an exception or qualification to something previously stated.
2. (archaic) Unless; used to introduce a hypothetical case in which an exception may exist.
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke IX:

     And they sayde: We have no moo but five loves and two fisshes, except we shulde goo and bye meate for all this people.

   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York 2001, p.106:

     Offensive wars, except the cause be very just, I will not allow of.

   • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 27:

     I am […] not so clear how you will be able to avoid it, except you assert the independence to which your estate gives you a title.

Translations

Anagrams

• expect

English

Conjunction

outcept

1. (obsolete) except; unless
   • 1640, Ben Jonson, Underwoods

     Look not so near, with hope to understand, Out-cept, sir, you can read with the left hand.