单词 | to exception |
释义 | > as lemmasto exception c. to take (an) exception (†exceptions) against, at exception, †of exception, to exception, †unto exception: to make objection to, find fault with, disapprove; also (chiefly with at), to take offence at. Formerly sometimes without preposition, to take (an) exception: to make (an) objection, to object or complain (that).Now only with the object an action, statement, quality, etc., not a person or material thing. ΚΠ 1542 King Henry VIII Declar. Causes Warre Scottis 204 The Scottis wyl take exception to the homages of theyr prynces. 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. i. f. 24 If any man take exception, and say, etc. 1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. vii. 13 Not able..to take any strong exception against. a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) v. ii. 3 Th... What saies Siluia to my suit? Pro. Oh Sir..she take exceptions at your person. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. ii. i. i. 306 Galen takes exception at mutton. a1680 J. Bargrave Pope Alexander VII (1867) i. vii. 15 They took exceptions of the quality of Illustrissimo. 1703 W. Burkitt Expos. Notes New Test. Mark ii. 12 The Exception which the Scribes took against our Saviour. 1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. xii. 238 There were not two Persons..who did not take some exception to it. 1715 T. Bennet Ess. 39 Articles 215 The animadvertor's stationer taketh exception, that I have printed all his book. 1822 Edinb. Rev. No. 74. 361 We must, as good Presbyterians take an exception to..the assertion. 1855 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Philip II of Spain I. i. iv. 116 Some of the more haughty of the aristocracy did take exception at his neglecting to raise his cap to them. 1868 M. E. Grant Duff Polit. Surv. 190 Exception has..been taken to these figures. < as lemmas |
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