Dictionary

exeat en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

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

Forms

Coordinates

absit · exeunt

Relateds

ne exeat