Ex*empt" (?), a. [F. exempt, L. exemptus, p. p. of eximere to take out, remove, free; ex out + emere to buy, take. Cf. Exon, Redeem.]
1.
Cut off; set apart.
[Obs.]
Corrupted, and exempt from ancient gentry.
Shak.
2.
Extraordinary; exceptional.
[Obs.]
Chapman.
3.
Free, or released, from some liability to which others are subject; excepted from the operation or burden of some law; released; free; clear; privileged; -- (with from): not subject to; not liable to; as, goods exempt from execution; a person exempt from jury service.
True nobility is exempt from fear.
Shak.
T is laid on all, not any one exempt.
Dryden.
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Ex*empt", n.
1.
One exempted or freed from duty; one not subject.
2.
One of four officers of the Yeomen of the Royal Guard, having the rank of corporal; an Exon.
[Eng.]
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Ex*empt", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exempted; p. pr. & vb. n. Exempting.] [F. exempter. See Exempt, a.]
1.
To remove; to set apart.
[Obs.]
Holland.
2.
To release or deliver from some liability which others are subject to; to except or excuse from he operation of a law; to grant immunity to; to free from obligation; to release; as, to exempt from military duty, or from jury service; to exempt from fear or pain.
Death
So snatched will not exempt us from the pain
We are by doom to pay.
Milton.
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