exeat

English

Etymology

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

Noun

exeat (plural exeats)

1. A license or permit for absence from a university or a religious house (such as a monastery).

   Coordinate term: absit

2. A permission which a bishop grants to a priest to go out of his diocese.
3. (dated, UK) Leave of absence from a public school or college.
   • 1984, Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac, Penguin, published 2016, page 66:

     [I]t was impossible to imagine her doing anything except eating ice-cream and smoking, like a child on an exeat from school.

4. (obsolete, theater) A stage direction to leave the stage.

   Coordinate term: (plural form) exeunt

Related terms

• ne exeat

Further reading

• exeat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• taxee

Latin

Verb

exeat

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of exeō