exeat

[ ek-see-at ]

noun

1. permission granted by a bishop to a priest to leave the diocese.
2. British. official permission for a student to be absent from a college or university.

exeat

/ ˈɛksɪət /

noun

1. leave of absence from school or some other institution
2. a bishop's permission for a priest to leave his diocese in order to take up an appointment elsewhere

Word History and Origins

Origin of exeat¹

1475–85; noun use of Latin exeat let (him) go out, 3rd person singular present subjunctive of exīre to go out

Word History and Origins

Origin of exeat¹

C18: Latin, literally: he may go out, from exīre

Example Sentences

Over the Cherwell, in the troublous times of the Civil Wars, rode the Royalist horse to beat up the Parliamentary quarters below the Chiltern hills and among the woods of the Buckinghamshire border--enterprising undergraduates perhaps taking an exeat to accompany them.

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At this moment a mighty tray, covered with such inducements to appetite as anchovies, sliced tomatoes, sardines, radishes, chopped celery, Strasburg sausage, et hoc genus omne—all equally superfluous in the case of a schoolboy up in town on an exeat—was laid before him with a stately flourish.

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The schoolboy who has obtained his exeat for a few days as he bounds off to the station to catch his train, may be thought to have left all care behind him.

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He has no more difficulty in obtaining leave up to midnight for a theatre visit than a Woolwich cadet in getting a Sunday exeat from the Academy.

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BINNEY,—I enclose the exeat which you will require in order to enable you to leave Cambridge for the Christmas vacation.

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