exeat
nounEtymology Borrowed from Latin exeat, third-person singular subjunctive of exeō (“depart”) used as an impersonal imperative, literally “let him go forth”.
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
Entertainment, Lifestyle, Theater Obsolete A stage direction to leave the stage.
- Related terms
- ne exeat