exceptious
Apt to take exception, or to object; captious, complaining.
Adjective
- Apt to take exception, or to object; captious, complaining.
- Tom. So, did you mark the dulness of her parting now? Alon. What dulness? Thou art so exceptious still. - 1622 (first performance), Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, The Changeling: […], London: […] [Thomas Newcombe]...
- And lastly, how shall many seeming Clashings, and dark Passages in Sacred History and Chronology be placed in such a Light, as may throughly satisfy, or at least effectually silence the Doubtful and Exceptious? - 1715,...
- The company, who were not at all exceptious, seemed extremely well pleased with every particular of the entertainment […]. - 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter 9, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume I,...
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti Proto-Italic *kapjō Old Latin kapiō Latin capiō Latin excipiō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin exceptiōder. Old French excepcion Anglo-Norman excepciounbor. Middle English exception English exception Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.? Proto-Italic *-ōtsos or *-otsos Latin -ōsus Old French -usbor. Middle English -ous English -ous English exceptious From excepti(on) + -ous, after captious.