Exempt

Definition of Exempt

Ex`empt´

a.	1.	Cut off; set apart. Corrupted, and exempt from ancient gentry. - Shak.
	2.	Extraordinary; exceptional.
	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.
n.	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.
v. t.	1.	To remove; to set apart. [imp. & p. p. Exempted; p. pr. & vb. n. Exempting.]
	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.

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