| 释义 |
† eˈxeme, v. Chiefly Sc. Obs.
Also 6–9 exeem(e, 7 exeime, exime.
[ad. L. exim-ĕre, f. ex- out + emĕre to take. For the phonology cf. redeem.]
1. trans. To set free, release:
a. from a payment, an obligation, from obedience to (a law, rule, etc.); = exempt v. 4 a and b.
1563Davidson Answ. Kennedy in Wodr. Soc. Misc. (1844) 251 The Gentiles that belevis is exemit fra the Law of Moyses. 1639Procl. Chas. I. Scotl. 2 [We] eximed all ministers at their entry from giving any other oath than, etc. a1657Sir J. Balfour Ann. Scot. (1824–5) II. 28 All knowen merchants..wer exeimed from taking this othe. 1733P. Lindsay Interest Scot. 174 So many of them [foreign Materials] as are used at publick Bleach-fields, should be exeemed from the Payment of Duty. 1814Scott Wav. xii, He hath no title to exeemed from the obligations of the code of politeness.
b. from pain, a penalty, etc.; also simply; = exempt v. 4 c.
1578in Spottiswood Hist. Ch. Scot. vi. (1677) 299 Nor doth it agree with the Scripture that they should be exeemed from the correction of their brethren. 1585Commend. Verses in Jas. I's Ess. Poesie (Arb.) 10 My minde exemed was from caire. 1637Gillespie Eng.-Pop. Cerem. ii. vii. 29 His Majesties Auctority, did..exeeme the affirmers from the paines of probation. 1647H. More Song of Soul ii. iii. iv. ii, It no man can exeem from miseries. 1716J. Row in Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 135 He had paid his cess; yet this exeemed him not.
2. To take away, remove; also, to select, except from; = exempt v. 1, 2.
a1605Montgomerie Misc. Poems xvii. 59 Beuties freshest florish, fair, Exemed clene from Loves lair. 1640Canterb. Self-Convict. 63 They exeeme all tenets controverted this day among any Christians from being the Subject of heresie. a1651Calderwood Hist. Kirk (1843) II. 342 She did what she could to exeme all feare and doubts out of his minde. 1688Ess. on Magistracy in Harl. Misc. (1808) I. 5 Express liberty is a stipulation, whereby some things are by express paction eximed from the power of the Sovereign. |