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exempted, ppl. a.|ɛgˈzɛm(p)tɪd|
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
†a. Withdrawn from care; unburdened. Of a soul: Withdrawn from the body; separate.
†b. = excepted.
c. To whom immunity (from punishment, burdens, or obligations) has been granted.
1598Yong Diana 76 In braue loue and fortunes art, There is not anything lesse sure Then such a free exempted hart. 1603R. Niccols Fun. Orat. Q. Eliz., If exempted soules may be subject to passions. 1712Berkeley Pass. Obed. §17 Whether obedience to the supreme power be not one of those exempted cases. 1725–6Pope Odyss. xxii. 418 With tim'rous awe From the dire scene th' exempted two withdraw. 1775Burke Sp. Conc. Amer. Wks. 1842 I. 199 The abuses have been full as great..in the exempted as in the punished. |