Third-person singular or plural form of 'except,' meaning to exclude or leave out; to take exception to.
From Latin 'exceptus,' past participle of 'excipere' (to take out). Modern English uses the verb form in present tense.
The verb 'except' is actually less common than we'd expect—we usually say 'exclude' instead, yet 'except' survives in the preposition form ('except for').
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