Exempt /(?)/

Ex·empt

Exempt

a.
  1. Cut off; set apart. [Obs.]
    Corrupted, and exempt from ancient gentry.
  2. Extraordinary; exceptional. [Obs.]
  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.
    T is laid on all, not any one exempt.

Exempt

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.]

Exempt

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Exempted; p. pr. & vb. n. Exempting

  1. To remove; to set apart. [Obs.]
  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.