Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Exempt

Exempt , adjective

[French exempt, Latin exemptus, past participle of eximere to take out, remove, free; ex out + emere to buy, take. Compare Exon, Redeem.]

1.
Cut off; set apart. [Obsolete]
Corrupted, and exempt from ancient gentry. — Shakespeare
2.
Extraordinary; exceptional. [Obsolete] — 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

Exempt , 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. [English]

Exempt , transitive verb

[French exempter. See Exempt, a.]

1.
To remove; to set apart. [Obsolete] — 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