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excepted adjective [ ɪkˈsɛptɪd ]

• excluded from the category or group specified.
• "most museums (the Getty excepted) have small acquisitions budgets"

except verb

• specify as excluded from a category or group.
• "five classes of advertisement are excepted from control"
Similar: exclude, omit, leave out, rule out, count out, disregard, pass over, bar,
Opposite: include,
Origin: late Middle English: from Latin except- ‘taken out’, from the verb excipere, from ex- ‘out of’ + capere ‘take’.


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