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English Dictionary: Exempt by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
exempt
adj
  1. (of persons) freed from or not subject to an obligation or liability (as e.g. taxes) to which others or other things are subject; "a beauty somehow exempt from the aging process"; "exempt from jury duty"; "only the very poorest citizens should be exempt from income taxes"
    Antonym(s): nonexempt
  2. (of goods or funds) not subject to taxation; "the funds of nonprofit organizations are nontaxable"; "income exempt from taxation"
    Synonym(s): nontaxable, exempt
    Antonym(s): nonexempt, taxable
v
  1. grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to; "She exempted me from the exam"
    Synonym(s): exempt, relieve, free
    Antonym(s): apply, enforce, implement
  2. grant exemption or release to; "Please excuse me from this class"
    Synonym(s): excuse, relieve, let off, exempt
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Exempt \Ex*empt"\, 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.]
  
                     Corrupted, and exempt from ancient gentry. --Shak.
  
      2. Extraordinary; exceptional. [Obs.] --Chapman.
  
      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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Exempt \Ex*empt"\, 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. [Eng.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Exempt \Ex*empt"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Exempted}; p. pr. & vb.
      n. {Exempting}.] [F. exempter. See {Exempt}, a.]
      1. To remove; to set apart. [Obs.] --Holland.
  
      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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