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except (2 is peculiar to S.)
1. intr. to make objection Gent. I. iii. 83, II. iv. 155, Tw.N. I. iii. 7 “let her before e-ed” (a legal phrase ‘exceptis excipiendis’ perverted).
2. trans. to object to, take exception to R2 I. i. 72, Cæs. II. i. 281*, Sonn. cxlvii. 8.
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.

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