EXEMPT

a. n. v.

7 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Cut off; set apart. [Obs.] Corrupted, and exempt from ancient gentry. Shak.

2.
a.

Extraordinary; exceptional. [Obs.] Chapman.

3.
a.

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.

4.
n.

One exempted or freed from duty; one not subject.

5.
n.

One of four officers of the Yeomen of the Royal Guard, having the rank of corporal; an Exon. [Eng.]

6.
v.

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

7.
v.

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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