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The act of buying. [R.] Arbuthnot.

Capable of being purchased.

The revocation or taking away of a grant donation, legacy, or the like. Bouvier.

The act of buying the whole quantity of any commodity. [R.] Bacon.

A tearing apart; violent separation. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

m any charge, burden, evil, etc., to which others are subject; immunity; privilege; as, exemption of certain articles from seizure; exemption from military service; exemption from anxiety, suffering, etc.

A quashing; a defeating. [Obs.]

The act or right of purchasing before others. Specifically:

One who holds a prior to purchase certain public land. Abbott.

the state of being redeemed; repurchase; ransom; release; rescue; deliverance; as, the redemption of prisoners taken in war; the redemption of a ship and cargo. Specifically:

One who is, or may be, redeemed. [R.] Hakluyt.

One who redeems himself, as from debt or servitude.

an order founded in 1197; -- so called because the order was especially devoted to the redemption of Christians held in captivity by the Mohammedans. Called also Trinitarian.

The state of being accurate; freedom from mistakes, this exemption arising from carefulness; exact conformity to truth, or to a rule or model; precision; exactness; nicety; correctness; as, the value of testimony depends on its accuracy. The professed end [of logic] is to teach men to think, to judge, and to reason, wi…

The quality of being allowable; permissibleness; lawfulness; exemption from prohibition or impropriety. South.

r appertains to another thing; an appurtenance. Mysterious appurtenants and symbols of redemption. Coleridge.

A special privilege, immunity, or exemption. My mother, Who has a charter to extol her blood, When she does praise me, grieves me. Shak.

o his clergy after as before conviction. Blackstone. Benefit of clergy (Eng., Law), the exemption of the persons of clergymen from criminal process before a secular judge -- a privilege which was extended to all who could read, such persons being, in the eye of the law, clerici, or clerks. This privilege was abridged a…

To obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution; to effect a commutation. He . . . thinks it unlawful to commute, and that he is bound to pay his vow in kind. Jer. Taylor.

idden, or to omit doing something enjoined; specifically, in the Roman Catholic Church, exemption from some ecclesiastical law or obligation to God which a man has incurred of his own free will (oaths, vows, etc.). A dispensation was obtained to enable Dr. Barrow to marry. Ward.