Definify.com

Webster 1913 Edition


Exempt

Ex-empt′

,
Adj.
[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.
Shakespeare
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.
Shakespeare
T is laid on all, not any one
exempt
.
Dryden.

Ex-empt′

,
Noun.
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.]

Ex-empt′

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Exempted
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Exempting
.]
[F.
exempter
. See
Exempt
,
Adj.
]
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.

Webster 1828 Edition


Exempt

EXEMPT'

,
Verb.
T.
egzemt' [L. eximo, exemptus; ex and emo, to take.]
Literally, to take out or from; hence, to free, or permit to be free, from any charge, burden, restraint,duty, evil or requisition, to which others are subject; to privilege; to grant immunity from. Officers and students of colleges are exempted from military duty. No man is exempted from pain and suffering. The laws of God exempt no man from the obligation to obedience.
Certain abbeys claimed to be exempted from the jurisdiction of their bishops.

EXEMPT'

,
Adj.
Free from any service, charge, burden, tax, duty, evil or requisition, to which others are subject; not subject; not liable to; as, to be exempt from military duty, or from a poll tax; to be exempt from pain or fear. Peers in G. Britain are exempt from serving on inquests.
1.
Free by privilege; as exempt from the jurisdiction of a lord or of a court.
2.
Free; clear; not included.
3.
Cut off from. [Not used.]

EXEMPT'

,
Noun.
One who is exempted or freed from duty; one not subject.

Definition 2024


exempt

exempt

English

Adjective

exempt (not comparable)

  1. Free from a duty or obligation.
    In their country all women are exempt from military service.
    His income is so small that it is exempt from tax.
    • Dryden
      'Tis laid on all, not any one exempt.
  2. (of an employee or his position) Not entitled to overtime pay when working overtime.
  3. (obsolete) Cut off; set apart.
    • Shakespeare
      corrupted, and exempt from ancient gentry
  4. (obsolete) Extraordinary; exceptional.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Chapman to this entry?)

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

exempt (plural exempts)

  1. One who has been released from something.
  2. (historical) A type of French police officer.
    • 1840, William Makepeace Thackeray, ‘Cartouche’, The Paris Sketch Book:
      with this he slipped through the exempts quite unsuspected, and bade adieu to the Lazarists and his honest father […].
  3. (Britain) One of four officers of the Yeomen of the Royal Guard, having the rank of corporal; an exon.

Translations

Verb

exempt (third-person singular simple present exempts, present participle exempting, simple past and past participle exempted)

  1. (transitive) To grant (someone) freedom or immunity from.

Related terms

Translations


French

Etymology

From Latin exemptus, past participle of eximō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɛɡ.zɑ̃/

Adjective

exempt m (feminine singular exempte, masculine plural exempts, feminine plural exemptes)

  1. exempt

Noun

exempt m (plural exempts)

  1. exempt, (type of) policeman
    • 1844, Alexandre Dumas, Les Trois Mousquetaires, XIII:
      « Suivez-moi, dit un exempt qui venait à la suite des gardes.

Middle French

Etymology

From Latin exemptus, past participle of eximō.

Adjective

exempt m (feminine singular exempte, masculine plural exempts, feminine plural exemptes)

  1. exempt