exeat

American  

[ek-see-at] / ˈɛk siˌæt /

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.

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exeat British  

/ 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

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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

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

Diana, looking at the exeat list which hung in the hall, shook her head at sight of her own name scored through with a blue pencil.

From A harum-scarum schoolgirl by Campbell, John

She did, rather; but I asked her if Nesta and I might have an exeat this afternoon to go to the Vicarage.

From A harum-scarum schoolgirl by Campbell, John

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.

From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by Escott, T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet)

Returning, they found the judge had driven his bear into a thicket, and, having probably taken out a ne exeat or an injunction, or some such effective legal remedy against him, awaited reinforcements.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. by Various