ppl. a. [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 † a. Withdrawn from care; unburdened. Of a soul: Withdrawn from the body; separate.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.
1598. Yong, Diana, 76. In braue loue and fortunes art, There is not anything lesse sure Then such a free exempted hart.
1603. [R. Niccols], Fun. Orat. Q. Eliz., B j b. If exempted soules may be subiect to passions.
1712. Berkeley, Pass. Obed., § 17. Whether obedience to the supreme power be not one of those exempted cases.
1725–6. Pope, Odyss., XXII. 418. With tim’rous awe From the dire scene th’ exempted two withdraw.
1775. Burke, Sp. Conc. Amer., Wks. 1842, I. 199. The abuses have been full as great … in the exempted as in the punished.
