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.
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.]
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.
