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▪ I. exode, n.1|ˈɛksəʊd|
Also 9 exod.
[anglicized form of Exodus. Cf. Fr. exode.]
†1. The Book of Exodus; = Exodus 1. Obs.
a1225Ancr. R. 196, I þisse wildernesse wende ure Louerdes folc, ase Exode telleð.
2. = Exodus 2 a. Somewhat rare.
a1751Bolingbroke Minutes Ess. Wks. 1754 V. 141 They [the Israelites] could bring, at the time of the Exode, six hundred thousand fighting men into the field. 1826G. Higgins Horœ Sabbat. (1833) 41 The Sabbath was first..instituted, on their exod from Egypt. 1853G. S. Faber Downf. of Turkey 47 The circumstances of the exode.
3. transf. = Exodus 2 c.
1882T. M. Post in Chicago Advance 22 June, The Exode [of colored people from the South about 1880].
▪ II. exode, n.2|ˈɛksəʊd|
[a. Fr. exode, ad. late L. exodium: see exodium.]
a. in the Gr. drama = exodium 1; hence gen. the ending, catastrophe of a play;
b. in the Roman drama = exodium 2.
a1684Earl Roscom. Wks. (1753) 176 The Romans had..three plays acted, one after another, on the same subject; the first a real Tragedy; the second the Attellane; the third a Satyr or Exode, a kind of Farce of one act. 1759W. Mason Caractacus Argt. in Poems (1805), The Exode, or Catastrophe, is prepared by the coming of Arviragus the King's son. 1833Blackw. Mag. XXXIV. 721 Hindu writers are in general successful in maintaining the character of their exode. |