Definition of "exceptive" []

• Of, being, or containing an exception. (adjective)
• Archaic Captious; faultfinding. (adjective)

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• "The fourth chapter, which deals with exceptive words, is compiled in a similar manner."
• "Neither doth he speak to the thing in hand, nor are the particulars mentioned exceptive to the former intimation, if his speech look any other way."
• "The exceptive particle at the entrance, with the apologetical design of the whole verse, ascribes such things to the saints, to whom the apostle speaks, as they were not partakers of concerning whom he had immediately before discoursed."