Exempt

• POS: Noun, Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: ex=empt

CIDE DICTIONARY

Exempt, a. [F. exempt, L. exemptus, p. p. of eximere to take out, remove, free; ex out + emere to buy, take. Cf. Exon, Redeem.].

•  Cut off; set apart.  [1913 Webster]

  "Corrupted, and exempt from ancient gentry."  [1913 Webster]
•  Extraordinary; exceptional.  Chapman.  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]

  "True nobility is exempt from fear."  [1913 Webster]

  "T is laid on all, not any one exempt."  [1913 Webster]

Exempt, n. 

•  One exempted or freed from duty; one not subject.  [1913 Webster]
•  One of four officers of the Yeomen of the Royal Guard, having the rank of corporal; an Exon.  [1913 Webster]

Exempt, v. t. [F. exempter. See Exempt, a.].

•  To remove; to set apart.  Holland.  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]

  "Death
  So snatched will not exempt us from the pain
  We are by doom to pay."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Exempt, adj., n., & v.
--adj.
1 free from an obligation or liability etc. imposed on others.
2 (foll. by from) not liable to.
--n.
1 a person who is exempt, esp. from payment of tax.
2 Brit. = EXON.
--v.tr. (foll. by from) free from an obligation, esp. one imposed on others.

Derivative

exemption n.

Etymology

ME f. L exemptus past part. of eximere exempt- (as EX-(1), emere take)

THESAURUS

Exempt

absolve, acquit, amnesty, chartered, clear, decontaminate, destigmatize, discharge, dismiss, dispense from, dispense with, except, excepted, exculpate, excuse, excused, exempt from, exempted, exonerate, favored, forgive, free, give absolution, give dispensation from, grant amnesty to, grant immunity, grant remission, immune, irresponsible, justify, let go, let off, liberated, licensed, nonpros, pardon, permitted, privileged, purge, quash the charge, release, released, remise, remit, save the necessity, set free, shrive, spare, spared, unaccountable, unanswerable, unliable, unsubject, vindicate, whitewash, withdraw the charge

ROGET THESAURUS

Exempt

Freedom

N freedom, liberty, independence, license, facility, scope, range, latitude, play, free play, full play, free scope, full scope, free stage and no favor, swing, full swing, elbowroom, margin, rope, wide berth, Liberty Hall, franchise, denization, free man, freed man, livery man, denizen, autonomy, self-government, liberalism, free trade, noninterference, Monroe Doctrine, immunity, exemption, emancipation, enfranchisement, affranchisement, free land, freehold, allodium, frankalmoigne, mortmain, bushwhacker, freelance, free thinker, free trader, independent, free, free as air, out of harness, independent, at large, loose, scot-free, left alone, left to oneself, in full swing, uncaught, unconstrained, unbuttoned, unconfined, unrestrained, unchecked, unprevented, unhindered, unobstructed, unbound, uncontrolled, untrammeled, unsubject, ungoverned, unenslaved, unenthralled, unchained, unshackled, unfettered, unreined, unbridled, uncurbed, unmuzzled, unrestricted, unlimited, unmitigated, unconditional, absolute, discretionary, unassailed, unforced, uncompelled, unbiassed, spontaneous, free and easy, at ease, at one's ease, degage, quite at home, wanton, rampant, irrepressible, unvanquished, exempt, freed, freeborn, autonomous, freehold, allodial, gratis, eleutherian, unclaimed, going a begging, freely, ad libitum, ubi libertas ibi patria, free white and twenty-one.

Exemption

VB not have, be without, excuse, be exempt, exempt, release, acquit, discharge, quitclaim, remise, remit, free, set at liberty, let off, pass over, spare, excuse, dispense with, give dispensation, license, stretch a point, absolve, exonerate, save the necessity.

N exemption, absence, exception, immunity, privilege, release, exempt from, devoid of, without, unpossessed of, unblest with, immune from, not having, unpossessed, untenanted, without an owner, unobtained, unacquired, exemption, freedom, irresponsibility, immunity, liberty, license, release, exoneration, excuse, dispensation, absolution, franchise, renunciation, discharge, exculpation, exempt, free, immune, at liberty, scot-free, released, unbound, unencumbered, irresponsible, unaccountable, not answerable, excusable, bonis nocet quisquis pepercerit malis.