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exceptor Obs. exc. Hist. (sense 2 b).|ɛkˈsɛptə(r), -ɔː(r)| [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.
a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 211 Were such upstart Exceptors to deale with Atheists..how should a man proceed? 1679T. Puller Moder. Ch. Eng. (1843) 155 Those very exceptors are really like the Romanists. 1690T. Burnet Ans. Except. Th. Earth 1, I shall..follow the learned Exceptor from Chapter to Chapter. 1755in 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.
1674Blount Glossogr., Exceptor, he that writes ones words as he speaks them; a gatherer. [Hence1692–1732in Coles] .1728H. Herbert tr. 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. |