exempt

Definitions

1. 1.Extraordinary; exceptional. [Obs.] Chapman.
2. 2.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.
3. 3.One exempted or freed from duty; one not subject.
4. 4.One of four officers of the Yeomen of the Royal Guard, having the rank of corporal; an Exon. [Eng.]
5. 5.To remove; to set apart. [Obs.] Holland.
6. 6.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.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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Definition-first questions whose answer is exempt.

• What is extraordinary; exceptional. [Obs.] Chapman called?
• What is one exempted or freed from duty; one not subject called?
• What is one of four officers of the Yeomen of the Royal Guard, having the rank of corporal; an Exon. [Eng.] called?
• What is to remove; to set apart. [Obs.] Holland called?