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   Exception , n. [L. exceptio: cf. F. exception.]
   The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule.
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   That which is excepted or taken out from others; a person, thing, or case, specified as distinct, or not included; as, almost every general rule has its exceptions.
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   Such rare exceptions, shining in the dark,
   Prove, rather than impeach, the just remark.
   Cowper.
   
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   Often with to.
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   That proud exception to all nature's laws.
   Pope.
   
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   (Law) An objection, oral or written, taken, in the course of an action, as to bail or security; or as to the decision of a judge, in the course of a trail, or in his charge to a jury; or as to lapse of time, or scandal, impertinence, or insufficiency in a pleading; also, as in conveyancing, a clause by which the grantor excepts something before granted.
   Burrill.
   
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   An objection; cavil; dissent; disapprobation; offense; cause of offense; -- usually followed by to or against.
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   I will never answer what exceptions they can have against our account [relation].
   Bentley.
   
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   He . . . took exception to the place of their burial.
   Bacon.
   
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   She takes exceptions at your person.
   Shak.
   
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   Bill of exceptions (Law), a statement of exceptions to the decision, or instructions of a judge in the trial of a cause, made for the purpose of putting the points decided on record so as to bring them before a superior court or the full bench for review.
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