To choose or select someone or something; an archaic or rare legal term meaning to except or exclude from consideration.
From Latin 'exoptare' (to wish for or desire), or possibly related to 'exceptio' (exception). This is a very rare English legal term that survives mainly in historical documents and legal archives.
Exopt is so rarely used today that most English speakers have never heard it, but medieval lawyers loved it for formal documents—it means to single out or make an exception, kind of like how we still use 'opt' in modern 'opt-in' and 'opt-out.'
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