Exempt (?), 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.]
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Corrupted, and exempt from ancient gentry. Shak.
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2. Extraordinary; exceptional. [Obs.] Chapman.
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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.
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True nobility is exempt from fear. Shak.
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T is laid on all, not any one exempt. Dryden.
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Exempt, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exempted; p. pr. & vb. n. Exempting.] [F. exempter. See Exempt, a.] 1. To remove; to set apart. [Obs.] Holland.
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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.
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Death
So snatched will not exempt us from the pain
We are by doom to pay. Milton.
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