exceptor

English

Noun

exceptor (plural exceptors)

1. Someone who makes exceptions.
   • 1913, John H. Stapleton, Explanation of Catholic Morals‎^[1]:

     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.

2. (Ancient Rome) A hired legal representative or advocate in court.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Verb

exceptor

1. 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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• exceptor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.