Exempt | Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Ex-ĕmpt', v. t.

verbtransitive

(egz-ĕmt', 84), v. t. [imp. & p. p. EXEMPTED; p. pr. & vb. n. EXEMPTING.] [Fr. exempter, from Lat. eximere, exemptum, to take out, remove, free; Sp. exentar, eximir, It. esentare, esimere, Pr. eximir.] To take out or from; to remove from circumstances or conditions in which others are placed; to grant immunity from; 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.

Ex-ĕmpt', a.

adjective

a. [Fr. & Pr. exempt, Lat. exemptus, p. p. of eximere; Sp. exento, It. esento, esente. See supra.] Taken out or removed; free in respect to that which binds and affects others, as a tax, a duty, an evil; released; liberated. They fix thee here a rock, whence they're exempt. Beau. & Fl. True nobility is exempt from fear. Shak.

Ex-ĕmpt', n.

noun

n. 1. One who is 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. [Eng.]