Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1952 (SND Vol. III).
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Quotation dates: 1701-1731, 1799-1814
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†EXEEM, v. Also exeme, exime. To free, relieve, exempt from some obligation, esp. a tax (Sc. 1752 D. Hume Polit. Discourses xiv. 56, 1787 J. Beattie Scotticisms 32, Rxb. 1923 Watson W.-B., exeme).Sc. 1701 R. Wodrow Early Letters (S.H.S. 1937) 182:
To have themselves eximed from the lau oblidging all to retire out of taverns against 10 at night.ne.Sc. 1714 R. Smith Poems 111:
He who's now gone, I think might been exeem'd, Were any of his rank or sex redeem'd, From Deaths devouring all o'recoming hand.Sc. 1731 A. Jervise Epitaphs. etc. (ed. Kinnell 1879) II. 39:
Neither airt . . . nor skill ere can, Exime us from the comon lot of man.Sc. 1799 H. Mitchell Scotticisms 35:
Those of the clergy, whose income is less than a hundred pounds a year, have been exeemed from the hair-powder tax.Sc. 1814 Scott Waverley (1817) xii.:
He hath no title to be exeemed from the obligation of the code of politeness.
