excepted

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
except/ɪkˈsept/

▶preposition not including; other than. ▶conjunction

• 1 used before a statement that forms an exception to one just made.

• 2 archaic unless.

▶verb (often as postpos. adj. excepted) specify as not included: present company excepted.

– origin ME: from L. except-, excipere ‘take out’.