exeat
permission granted by a bishop to a priest to leave the diocese.
British. official permission for a student to be absent from a college or university.
Origin of exeat
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How to use exeat in a sentence
The monotony of his schooldays was only broken by his Sunday exeat which was spent at home.
The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky | Modeste TchaikovskyHe added, with a return of the grim humour of a don, that he supposed that as a sovereign prince I need scarcely “take an exeat.”
The Fall of Prince Florestan of Monaco | Charles Wentworth DilkeThe sisters watched the weather anxiously when their fortnightly exeat came round.
A Patriotic Schoolgirl | Angela BrazilIt was highly aggravating, because she was considered an invalid, and her Wednesday exeat was cancelled.
A Patriotic Schoolgirl | Angela BrazilThey have got him an exeat from the Doctor, they have bought him lines and bait, they have filled his pockets with good things.
Follow My leader | Talbot Baines Reed
British Dictionary definitions for exeat
/ (ˈɛksɪət) /
leave of absence from school or some other institution
a bishop's permission for a priest to leave his diocese in order to take up an appointment elsewhere
Origin of exeat
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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