exceptor

English

Noun

exceptor (plural exceptors)

Someone who makes exceptions.
- 1913, John H. Stapleton, Explanation of Catholic Morals‎:
  God is no exceptor of persons; a soul is a soul, whether it be the soul of a pontiff, a king or a sage, or the soul of the unborn babe of the last woman of the people.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for exceptor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Latin

Verb

exceptor

first-person singular present passive indicative of exceptō

References

exceptor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
exceptor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
exceptor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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