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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Exempt \Ex*empt"\, adjective [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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Exempt \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.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Exempt \Ex*empt"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Exempted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Exempting}.] [F. exempter. See {Exempt}, adjective]
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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
exempt
adjective
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" [ant: {nonexempt}]
2: (of goods or funds) not subject to taxation; "the funds of nonprofit organizations are nontaxable"; "income exempt from taxation" [syn: {nontaxable}] [ant: {taxable}]
verb
1: grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to; "She exempted me from the exam" [syn: {relieve}, {free}] [ant: {enforce}]
2: grant exemption or release to; "Please excuse me from this class" [syn: {excuse}, {relieve}, {let off}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
56 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
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