1. To stop or to prevent someone from doing something or from being part of a group: "David, unless you are a member of the organization, you are excepted (excluded) from voting on any of the issues."
2. Taking or leaving out, omitting, excluding: "All of the children got balloons, except Billie, who received a kite."
3. Etymology: from Latin exceptus, excipere "to take out"; from ex-, "out" + capere. "to take".