Obs. rare. [f. prec. (AF. had excepcioner in sense 1).]
1. intr. To lodge or state an exception.
1593. Nashe, Christ’s T. (1613), 184. There is no demurring, or exceptioning against his testimony.
2. trans. To except (in quot. pr. pple. used absol.: cf. EXCEPTING prep. 1).
1656. Hobbes, trans. Wallis, in Six Less., iv. Wks. 1845, VII. 290. He was the worst geometrician of all mortal men, not exceptioning so much as Orontius.
