Exempt — Defs

01 a. Cut off; set apart.

1.
Cut off; set apart.[Obs.]
“Corrupted, and exempt from ancient gentry.” — Shak.
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.” — Shak.

“T is laid on all, not any one exempt.” — Dryden.

02 n. One exempted or freed from duty; one not subject.

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.]

03 v. t. To remove; to set apart.

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.” — Milton.