Obs. exc. Hist. (sense 2 b). [a. late L. exceptor, agent-n. f. excipĕre: see EXCEPT v.]
† 1. One who objects or takes exception (to anything); an objector. Obs. = EXCEPTER a.
a. 1641. Bp. Mountagu, Acts & Mon. (1642), 211. Were such upstart Exceptors to deale with Atheists … how should a man proceed?
1679. T. Puller, Moder. Ch. Eng., 246. Those very exceptors are really like the Romanists, Canonizing and Sainting one another for being of some particular humour and faction.
1690. T. Burnet, Answ. Except. Th. Earth, 1. I shall … follow the learned Exceptor from Chapter to Chapter.
1755. in Johnson; hence in mod. Dicts.
2. † a. A reporter, short-hand writer. Obs.–0
b. Hist. An officer in the Court of Chancery under the later Roman Empire.
1674. Blount, Glossogr., Exceptor, he that writes ones words as he speaks them; a gatherer. [Hence 1692–1732 in Coles].
1728. H. Herbert, trans. Fleury’s Eccl. Hist., II. 16. An officer belonging to the Proconsul … who seems to be one of those … called Exceptors or Clerks of the court.
