exeat
Americannoun
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permission granted by a bishop to a priest to leave the diocese.
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British. official permission for a student to be absent from a college or university.
noun
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leave of absence from school or some other institution
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a bishop's permission for a priest to leave his diocese in order to take up an appointment elsewhere
Etymology
Origin of exeat
1475–85; noun use of Latin exeat let (him) go out, 3rd person singular present subjunctive of exīre to go out
Example Sentences
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It also conferred on Timothy Abbott a "ne exeat" right, which means the child's mother could not take him out of Chile without his father's consent.
From Washington Post ● May 18, 2010
In his agony for revenge he had endeavoured to obtain some legal order that should prevent her departure;—"ne exeat regno," as he repeated over and over again to his advisers learned in the law.
From Orley Farm by Anthony Trollope
He's home for his exeat and we're going to the Zoo.
From The Man with the Double Heart by Muriel Hine
She received her coldly when she brought her home letters to be stamped, stopped her exeat, and did not remit a fraction of her imposition.
From A Patriotic Schoolgirl by Balliol Salmon
No girl might go without showing an exeat signed by the Principal.
From For the School Colours by Angela Brazil
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