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exeat|ˈɛksiːæt|
[L. exeat let (him) go out, 3rd pers. sing. pres. subj. of exīre to go out: see exit n.]
‖A. In Lat. use as verb.
In plays of the early 16th c. used as a stage direction, equivalent to the later exit n. (So also ˈexeant, ‘let (them) go out’, for which exeunt was afterwards used.)
c1485Digby Myst. (1882) i. 275 Exeant. a1553Udall Royster D. i. ii. (Arb.) 19 Exeat.
B. n. A permission to go out. [So used in Fr.]
1. A permission to leave the diocese, granted to a priest by the bishop.
1730–6in Bailey (folio). 1855R. Boyle Boyle v. Wiseman 71 Armed with the above exeat, I immediately applied for employment to the..Bishop of Southwark.
2. In English public schools and colleges, in monastic houses, etc.: A permission for temporary absence. Also ˈexeant, such a permission granted to more than one person.
1727–51Chambers Cycl. s.v., His master has given him an exeat. 1806K. White Let. 30 June, He would not give me an exeat, without which no man can leave his college for the night. 1852C. A. Bristed Eng. University I. 193 note, Exeats..were never granted [at King's Coll. Camb.] but in cases of life and death. 1859Farrar J. Home 259 How shall I get my exeat to go to London. |