1. (a.) Free, or released, from some obligation 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.

2. (a.) Cut off; set apart.

3. (a.) Extraordinary; exceptional.

4. (n.) One exempted or freed from duty; one not subject.

5. (n.) One of four officers of the Yeomen of the Royal Guard, having the rank of corporal; an Exon.

6. (v.) To remove; to set apart.

7. (v.) 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.

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