exeat
English
Etymology
Latin third-person singular subjunctive of exeō (“depart”) used as an impersonal imperative, literally “let him go forth”.
Noun
exeat (plural exeats)
- A license or permit for absence from a university or a religious house (such as a monastery).
- Coordinate term: absit
- A permission which a bishop grants to a priest to go out of his diocese.
- (dated, UK) Leave of absence from a public school or college.
- 1984, Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac, Penguin 2016, p. 66:
- [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 2016, p. 66:
- (obsolete, theater) A stage direction to leave the stage.
- Coordinate term: (plural form) exeunt
Derived terms
- ne exeat
Further reading
exeat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- taxee
Latin
Verb
exeat
- third-person singular present active subjunctive of exeō