exeat

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin exeat, third-person singular subjunctive of exeō (“depart”) used as an impersonal imperative, literally “let him go forth”.

Noun

exeat (plural exeats)

  1. A license or permit for absence from a university or a religious house (such as a monastery).
    Coordinate term: absit
  2. A permission which a bishop grants to a priest to go out of his diocese.
  3. (dated, UK) Leave of absence from a public school or college.
    • 1984, Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac, Penguin, published 2016, page 66:
      [I]t was impossible to imagine her doing anything except eating ice-cream and smoking, like a child on an exeat from school.
  4. (obsolete, theater) A stage direction to leave the stage.
    Coordinate term: (plural form) exeunt

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Verb

exeat

  1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of exeō
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