exeat

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.

   dated

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

4. A stage direction to leave the stage.

   obsolete

Where it comes from

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

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry exeat (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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