English Explanatory Dictionary

exeat

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  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. Leave of absence from a public school or college.
  4. A stage direction to leave the stage.

Word forms

exeat exeats

Etymology

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

Related words

ne exeat
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