egressn.

Brit.

/ˈiːɡrɛs/, U.S.

/ˈiˌɡrɛs/

Forms: 1500s–1600s egresse, 1500s–1600s egres, 1500s– egress.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French egres; Latin ēgressus.

Etymology: < (i) Law French egres, egresse liberty to go out or leave (1482 or earlier in the source translated in quot. 1528-30 at sense 1a), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin ēgressus action of going out, aperture, outlet, digression, in post-classical Latin also way out, exit (5th cent.), (in figurative use) death (from 8th cent. in British sources) < ēgress- , past participial stem of ēgredī to go out (see egredient adj.) + -tus , suffix forming verbal nouns. Compare Spanish egreso (13th cent. as †egresso ), Italian egresso (1585). Compare earlier egression n., and also earlier ingress n., regress n.

a. The action or an act of going out or leaving from a place; liberty to go out or leave. In later use also: emission, discharge.Frequently (esp. in legal contexts) in collocation with ingress n. 1a, regress n. 3a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > [noun]

outcome?c1225

issuea1325

outgoing?c1335

outpassinga1387

out-passagea1398

outgatea1400

ishingc1422

egression?a1425

exiture?a1425

issuing?a1425

ush1429

excessc1450

ish1513

egress1528

getting out1599

exitus1608

excession1656

evasiona1659

exition1663

outgo1858

1528–30 tr. T. Littleton Tenures (new ed.) f. vi Fre entre, egresse and regresse [Fr. frank entre egresse & regresse].

1543–4 Act 35 Hen. VIII c. 10 To haue free ingresse egresse and regresse into all suche places.

1597 Bp. J. King Lect. Ionas xxx. 402 The inhabitants of the earth woulde never haue beleeved that..the prophet of the Lord coulde haue had egresse from the gates and barres of this monstrous fish.

1601 J. Deacon & J. Walker Summarie Answere to Darel 84 I have..obserued..in sundrie Demoniakes, a vomiting immediatly before the egresse of the Spirit.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 437 Gates of burning Adamant..prohibit all egress .

1724 T. Richers tr. Hist. Royal Geneal. Spain 400 The French Fleet..enter'd the Bay of Cadiz, to prevent all Egress and Regress of that Harbour.

1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. xxxv. 233 I have told him, that he may indeed watch her egresses and regresses.

1799 A. Plumptre tr. A. von Kotzebue Virgin of Sun iv. iii. 67 By virtue of my office as High-Priest, I had at all times free ingress and egress.

1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian v, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 134 A small fee to the keepers would..procure egress and ingress at any time.

1870 E. Peacock Ralf Skirlaugh I. 13 The other door which afforded egress into the small court.

1897 Jrnl. Pract. Med. 8 276/2 In the case of the heater, with no egress of carbon dioxid there is no room provided for ingress of fresh oxygen, hence no ventilation.

1908 Mich. Law Rev. 6 604 The right of egress and regress over the land for the purpose of cutting, manufacturing, and removing the material.

1988 A. Brookner Misalliance ii. 23 Egress from each room in turn was blocked by Miss Elphinstone's figure.

2000 Building Design 18 Feb. 31/1 (advt.) The beauty of this design is that it allows easy egress in an emergency,..but provides a strong and secure barrier to unwanted entry.

b. figurative and in figurative contexts (in early use often with reference to death, treated as a departure from life).

ΚΠ

1598 F. Meres tr. Luis de Granada Sinners Guyde i. vii. 73 The proportion of mans departure and entrance into this world is notable: for both is full of sorrowes, his ingresse hath the sorrowes of another, his egresse his owne [Sp. Y assi concuerda muy bien la entrada con la salida; pues la vna, y la otra es con dolores; aunque la vna con los agenos, y la otra con los propios].

1604 T. Wright Passions of Minde (new ed.) v. §4. 264 Ingresse into this world..Progresse of Life..Egresse or death.

1639 J. Woodall Surgeons Mate (rev. ed.) Pref. sig. B4 This present Worke..the Authour entreates..may receive a charitable construction upon the egresse thereof.

1640 E. Reynolds Treat. Passions ix. 74 Love then consists in a kind of expansion or egresse of the heat and spirits to the object loved.

1778 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry II. xv. 351 Our author supposes, that in the wall surrounding the palace of Fame were a thousand gates, new and old, for the entrance and egress of all nations.

1875 A. Helps Social Pressure iii. 43 What should prevent the ingress, into such great towns as London, of noxious trades, or facilitate their egress.

1958 R. Cusack Cadenza xlvii. 184 I simply had to follow her to get to an end; to find some egress from my present non sum.

2000 T. J. Colton Transnational Citizens iii. 70 These [factors] find egress not only in ‘economic voting’, a syndrome common to many countries, but in ‘political voting’.

c. Astronomy. The passing of a celestial object from in front of the disc of the sun (or of a planet) in a transit; (also) the emergence of a celestial object from an eclipse or occultation; the end of a transit, eclipse, or occultation. Cf. ingress n. 3c.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > heavenly body > [noun] > state of being visible > reappearance

apparition1556

emersion1633

egress1664

emergencea1727

expurgation1727

emergency1763

1664 H. Oldenburg Let. 16 Mar. in Corr. (1965) II. 149 Observations of yesd [= the said] Planets [sc. Mercury's] Conjunction wth ye Sun, wch..will happen here in England about London on ye 25th Octob. of this present year, in its central Ingresse hor. 4. 32–½; true conjunction, hor. 7. 6.; midle, hor. 7. 11; central egresse h. 9. 49–½.

1706 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 2 May (1885) I. 239 They plainly perceiv'd the Ingress and Egress.

1764 J. Ferguson Astron. Explained (ed. 3) 340 The quantity of this parallax is in direct proportion to the absolute difference in the time of the egress arising from it.

1867 G. F. Chambers Descr. Astron. Voc. 798 Egress..is the passing off, after a transit of, a minor planet from the disc of the Sun or of a satellite from the disc of its primary.

1882 Daily News 30 Dec. 5/4 The Transit of Venus..the egress observations in the West Indies.

1941 Publ. Astron. Soc. Pacific 53 21 Slightly hazy at times, but at both ingress and egress of the planet [sc. Mercury] it was quite clear and the limb of the sun stood out sharply.

1974 Publ. Astron. Soc. Pacific 86 994/2 To determine the points of ingress and egress of an occultation we adopted the following method.

2004 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) May 76/1 The first and second contacts occur at ingress, when Venus's disk touches the sun's from first the outside and then the inside; the third and fourth contacts occur at egress.

2. Chiefly Anatomy. The emergence of a nerve or vessel from the skull, spinal column, or other structure or organ. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > vascular system > [noun] > vessel > branching out

egress1578

the world > life > the body > nervous system > nerve > [noun] > branching out of

egress1578

1578 J. Banister Hist. Man viii. f. 110 After the egresse or goyng out therof [of the nerve], it cleaueth into two braunches.

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 900 These Nerues do yssue out of the common perforations of the aforesaid rackbones, and presently after their egresse are vnited at the sides of the spondils.

1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) i. xvii. 46 (heading) This Table propounds the Kidneys both whole and cut asunder, that the Ingress and Egress of the Vessels might be discerned.

1712 P. Blair in Philos. Trans. 1710–12 (Royal Soc.) 27 123 The fourth Pair of Holes then is for the Egress of the third Branch of the 5th Pair.

1770 J. Hill Constr. Timber (octavo ed.) i. viii. 61 At i i [is shewn] the clusters of vessels which at their egress from the tree are to form Branches.

1830 R. Knox tr. P. A. Béclard Elements Gen. Anat. 359 The nervous fasciculi..are collected together at their egress from the ganglion.

1868 R. Owen On Anat. Vertebr. III. xxviii. 176 The smaller internal cutaneous nerve is the external branch of the third dorsal after its egress from between the ribs.

1912 Proc. 7th Internat. Zoöl. Congr. 174 The egress of the roots of the accessory nerve from the sides of the cord is evidence of the possibility possessed by nerve fibres of altering their course.

3. A point or place through which something goes out or leaves; a way out, an exit. Also figurative and as a mass noun.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > [noun] > means of exit

outgangOE

gatec1175

outletc1275

outgoinga1387

water gatea1393

ish14..

issuec1400

outgatec1485

ushing1489

outway1571

egress1660

utterance1662

débouché1760

debouch1813

gateway1842

outgo1869

outfall1883

outcome1885

1660 E. Warcupp tr. F. Schottus Italy iii. 278 They [sc. wind and smoke] there augment beyond measure, searching out an egresse, with horrible noise and shakings of the earth and mountains.

1677 M. Hale Contempl. ii. 229 God..as a wise Artist..stops all other egresses but that which fits his design.

1708 tr. J. Ozanam Recreations Math. & Physical 381 The Water cast up into the Phiol will continually fall down and find an egress in the greatest Pipe.

1816 J. Scott Paris Revisited vi. 142 A lane, up which our troops pursued..the enemy, and egress from which was shut up.

1863 G. J. Whyte-Melville Gladiators III. 163 The door..was a private egress opening on the wide terrace.

1925 Rotarian Jan. 17/1 He felt that this explicit explanation so gratuitously offered would move the native to compassion, and peradventure induce him to suggest an egress from his present plight.

1937 Amer. Home Apr. 145/2 (caption) Stone is more practical because it doesn't wear... It points out a way and often lights up a dark and narrow egress.

2001 N. Green Shooting Dr. Jack (2002) iv. 73 Next to the office was the parking lot,..with the gate on the street providing the only egress.

Compounds

General attributive, with the sense ‘that enables or allows for egress’.

ΚΠ

1816 Q. Jrnl. Sci. & Arts July 280 The pipe which furnishes the gas is connected at the axis at I..; and the egress pipe is similarly connected to the opposite extremity K.

1837 C. Babbage On Math. Powers Calculating Engine in Wks. (1989) III. 16 Two axes with figure wheels, I the ingress axis and ʺA the egress axis connect the mill with the store.

1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 22 Dec. 5/2 Another improvement is the egress chamber, through which a diver may step out and operate upon a submarine mine or an ironclad overhead.

1916 Southern Engineer Mar. 7/2 The position of egress ports, if many, may defeat the purpose of a furnace.

1980 U.S. Patent 4,235,678 1/2 Egress valves and locks are provided.

2003 Independent 3 Feb. 15/5 The Highways Agency must consider installing extra egress points..to enable emergency clearance under police control.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

egressv.

Brit.

/ᵻˈɡrɛs/, U.S.

/əˈɡrɛs/,

/iˈɡrɛs/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: egress n.

Etymology: < egress n. Compare earlier ingress v., regress v.

Now chiefly U.S.

1. intransitive. To go out, leave; to exit from. Now also transitive: to leave or exit (a place).In quot. 1578 in perfect tense formed with to be.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > go or come out [verb (intransitive)]

outgoeOE

to come outOE

forthcomeOE

to go outOE

ishc1330

to take forth one's way (also journey, road, etc.)a1375

proceedc1380

getc1390

exorta1400

issue?a1400

precedec1425

purgea1430

to come forthc1449

suea1450

ushc1475

to call one's way (also course)1488

to turn outa1500

void1558

redound1565

egress1578

outpacea1596

result1598

pursue1651

out1653

pop1770

to get out1835

progress1851

1578 J. Banister Hist. Man viii. f. 111^v Two other payre of sinewes..Which after they are egressed or gone forth, beget also, by together knittyng, one notable nerue.

1757 C. N. Jenty Course Anatomico-physiol. Lect. III. v. 119 The Optic Nerve;..egressing from the Middle or Apex of the Papilla, divides in the Center of the Retina.

1800 Laws Yale-College iii. 15 They shall note down those, who are absent from, come late to, or egress from, prayers and other public exercises in the Chapel.

1824 C. Fry Assistant of Educ. Dec. 330 Had I not in the midst of my soliloquy egressed from this same wood, and..found myself upon the beach.

1866 J. B. Rose tr. Ovid Fasti ii. 203 Forth from the camp egress'd their bands.

1900 M. De Mankowski tr. A. Jablonski Ten Years in Cossack Slavery xxi. 159 The survivors of the army re-entered Orenbourg, from whence they not long since egressed with faith in victory and plunder.

1970 N. Armstrong et al. First on Moon iii. 66 I..was ready to egress.

1989 Airforce July 46/2 (advt.) The first section is off and egressing the area. The second section is just into its run.

2005 J. Shane Sky Hunters: X-battalion 351 These battered soldiers were some kind of super-secret Special Ops team and they'd just egressed from North Korea.

2. transitive. To cause to go out or leave; spec. (in early use) to emit, send out.Much less frequent than sense 1.

ΚΠ

1663 G. Harvey Archelogia Philosophica Nova II. ii. iii. 244 One Element being predominant,..must needs make way for its effumation, and afterwards break through by egressing fumes.

1772 tr. J. Böhme Mysterium Magnum ii, in Wks. III. 11 That which is egressed is called the Lubet of the Deity.

1908 N.Y. Med. Jrnl. 14 Nov. 925/1 That one element..must needs make way for its effumation, and afterwards break through by egressing fumes.

1969 Charleston (W. Va.) Daily Mail 15 Nov. 2/4 If I saw lightning strike within three or four miles of the pad I would have given serious consideration to egressing the crew.

2013 K. Maloney in F. Allahdadi et al. Safety Design for Space Operations ii. 51 A single cab on a slidewire that egressed the astronauts from the capsule level of the launch tower to the ground.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	egress
释义	egressn. Brit. /ˈiːɡrɛs/, U.S. /ˈiˌɡrɛs/ Forms: 1500s–1600s egresse, 1500s–1600s egres, 1500s– egress. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French egres; Latin ēgressus. Etymology: < (i) Law French egres, egresse liberty to go out or leave (1482 or earlier in the source translated in quot. 1528-30 at sense 1a), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin ēgressus action of going out, aperture, outlet, digression, in post-classical Latin also way out, exit (5th cent.), (in figurative use) death (from 8th cent. in British sources) < ēgress- , past participial stem of ēgredī to go out (see egredient adj.) + -tus , suffix forming verbal nouns. Compare Spanish egreso (13th cent. as †egresso ), Italian egresso (1585). Compare earlier egression n., and also earlier ingress n., regress n. 1. a. The action or an act of going out or leaving from a place; liberty to go out or leave. In later use also: emission, discharge.Frequently (esp. in legal contexts) in collocation with ingress n. 1a, regress n. 3a. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > [noun] outcome?c1225 issuea1325 outgoing?c1335 outpassinga1387 out-passagea1398 outgatea1400 ishingc1422 egression?a1425 exiture?a1425 issuing?a1425 ush1429 excessc1450 ish1513 egress1528 getting out1599 exitus1608 excession1656 evasiona1659 exition1663 outgo1858 1528–30 tr. T. Littleton Tenures (new ed.) f. vi Fre entre, egresse and regresse [Fr. frank entre egresse & regresse]. 1543–4 Act 35 Hen. VIII c. 10 To haue free ingresse egresse and regresse into all suche places. 1597 Bp. J. King Lect. Ionas xxx. 402 The inhabitants of the earth woulde never haue beleeved that..the prophet of the Lord coulde haue had egresse from the gates and barres of this monstrous fish. 1601 J. Deacon & J. Walker Summarie Answere to Darel 84 I have..obserued..in sundrie Demoniakes, a vomiting immediatly before the egresse of the Spirit. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 437 Gates of burning Adamant..prohibit all egress . View more context for this quotation 1724 T. Richers tr. Hist. Royal Geneal. Spain 400 The French Fleet..enter'd the Bay of Cadiz, to prevent all Egress and Regress of that Harbour. 1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. xxxv. 233 I have told him, that he may indeed watch her egresses and regresses. 1799 A. Plumptre tr. A. von Kotzebue Virgin of Sun iv. iii. 67 By virtue of my office as High-Priest, I had at all times free ingress and egress. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian v, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 134 A small fee to the keepers would..procure egress and ingress at any time. 1870 E. Peacock Ralf Skirlaugh I. 13 The other door which afforded egress into the small court. 1897 Jrnl. Pract. Med. 8 276/2 In the case of the heater, with no egress of carbon dioxid there is no room provided for ingress of fresh oxygen, hence no ventilation. 1908 Mich. Law Rev. 6 604 The right of egress and regress over the land for the purpose of cutting, manufacturing, and removing the material. 1988 A. Brookner Misalliance ii. 23 Egress from each room in turn was blocked by Miss Elphinstone's figure. 2000 Building Design 18 Feb. 31/1 (advt.) The beauty of this design is that it allows easy egress in an emergency,..but provides a strong and secure barrier to unwanted entry. b. figurative and in figurative contexts (in early use often with reference to death, treated as a departure from life). ΚΠ 1598 F. Meres tr. Luis de Granada Sinners Guyde i. vii. 73 The proportion of mans departure and entrance into this world is notable: for both is full of sorrowes, his ingresse hath the sorrowes of another, his egresse his owne [Sp. Y assi concuerda muy bien la entrada con la salida; pues la vna, y la otra es con dolores; aunque la vna con los agenos, y la otra con los propios]. 1604 T. Wright Passions of Minde (new ed.) v. §4. 264 Ingresse into this world..Progresse of Life..Egresse or death. 1639 J. Woodall Surgeons Mate (rev. ed.) Pref. sig. B4 This present Worke..the Authour entreates..may receive a charitable construction upon the egresse thereof. 1640 E. Reynolds Treat. Passions ix. 74 Love then consists in a kind of expansion or egresse of the heat and spirits to the object loved. 1778 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry II. xv. 351 Our author supposes, that in the wall surrounding the palace of Fame were a thousand gates, new and old, for the entrance and egress of all nations. 1875 A. Helps Social Pressure iii. 43 What should prevent the ingress, into such great towns as London, of noxious trades, or facilitate their egress. 1958 R. Cusack Cadenza xlvii. 184 I simply had to follow her to get to an end; to find some egress from my present non sum. 2000 T. J. Colton Transnational Citizens iii. 70 These [factors] find egress not only in ‘economic voting’, a syndrome common to many countries, but in ‘political voting’. c. Astronomy. The passing of a celestial object from in front of the disc of the sun (or of a planet) in a transit; (also) the emergence of a celestial object from an eclipse or occultation; the end of a transit, eclipse, or occultation. Cf. ingress n. 3c. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > heavenly body > [noun] > state of being visible > reappearance apparition1556 emersion1633 egress1664 emergencea1727 expurgation1727 emergency1763 1664 H. Oldenburg Let. 16 Mar. in Corr. (1965) II. 149 Observations of yesd [= the said] Planets [sc. Mercury's] Conjunction wth ye Sun, wch..will happen here in England about London on ye 25th Octob. of this present year, in its central Ingresse hor. 4. 32–½; true conjunction, hor. 7. 6.; midle, hor. 7. 11; central egresse h. 9. 49–½. 1706 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 2 May (1885) I. 239 They plainly perceiv'd the Ingress and Egress. 1764 J. Ferguson Astron. Explained (ed. 3) 340 The quantity of this parallax is in direct proportion to the absolute difference in the time of the egress arising from it. 1867 G. F. Chambers Descr. Astron. Voc. 798 Egress..is the passing off, after a transit of, a minor planet from the disc of the Sun or of a satellite from the disc of its primary. 1882 Daily News 30 Dec. 5/4 The Transit of Venus..the egress observations in the West Indies. 1941 Publ. Astron. Soc. Pacific 53 21 Slightly hazy at times, but at both ingress and egress of the planet [sc. Mercury] it was quite clear and the limb of the sun stood out sharply. 1974 Publ. Astron. Soc. Pacific 86 994/2 To determine the points of ingress and egress of an occultation we adopted the following method. 2004 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) May 76/1 The first and second contacts occur at ingress, when Venus's disk touches the sun's from first the outside and then the inside; the third and fourth contacts occur at egress. 2. Chiefly Anatomy. The emergence of a nerve or vessel from the skull, spinal column, or other structure or organ. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > vascular system > [noun] > vessel > branching out egress1578 the world > life > the body > nervous system > nerve > [noun] > branching out of egress1578 1578 J. Banister Hist. Man viii. f. 110 After the egresse or goyng out therof [of the nerve], it cleaueth into two braunches. 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 900 These Nerues do yssue out of the common perforations of the aforesaid rackbones, and presently after their egresse are vnited at the sides of the spondils. 1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) i. xvii. 46 (heading) This Table propounds the Kidneys both whole and cut asunder, that the Ingress and Egress of the Vessels might be discerned. 1712 P. Blair in Philos. Trans. 1710–12 (Royal Soc.) 27 123 The fourth Pair of Holes then is for the Egress of the third Branch of the 5th Pair. 1770 J. Hill Constr. Timber (octavo ed.) i. viii. 61 At i i [is shewn] the clusters of vessels which at their egress from the tree are to form Branches. 1830 R. Knox tr. P. A. Béclard Elements Gen. Anat. 359 The nervous fasciculi..are collected together at their egress from the ganglion. 1868 R. Owen On Anat. Vertebr. III. xxviii. 176 The smaller internal cutaneous nerve is the external branch of the third dorsal after its egress from between the ribs. 1912 Proc. 7th Internat. Zoöl. Congr. 174 The egress of the roots of the accessory nerve from the sides of the cord is evidence of the possibility possessed by nerve fibres of altering their course. 3. A point or place through which something goes out or leaves; a way out, an exit. Also figurative and as a mass noun. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > [noun] > means of exit outgangOE gatec1175 outletc1275 outgoinga1387 water gatea1393 ish14.. issuec1400 outgatec1485 ushing1489 outway1571 egress1660 utterance1662 débouché1760 debouch1813 gateway1842 outgo1869 outfall1883 outcome1885 1660 E. Warcupp tr. F. Schottus Italy iii. 278 They [sc. wind and smoke] there augment beyond measure, searching out an egresse, with horrible noise and shakings of the earth and mountains. 1677 M. Hale Contempl. ii. 229 God..as a wise Artist..stops all other egresses but that which fits his design. 1708 tr. J. Ozanam Recreations Math. & Physical 381 The Water cast up into the Phiol will continually fall down and find an egress in the greatest Pipe. 1816 J. Scott Paris Revisited vi. 142 A lane, up which our troops pursued..the enemy, and egress from which was shut up. 1863 G. J. Whyte-Melville Gladiators III. 163 The door..was a private egress opening on the wide terrace. 1925 Rotarian Jan. 17/1 He felt that this explicit explanation so gratuitously offered would move the native to compassion, and peradventure induce him to suggest an egress from his present plight. 1937 Amer. Home Apr. 145/2 (caption) Stone is more practical because it doesn't wear... It points out a way and often lights up a dark and narrow egress. 2001 N. Green Shooting Dr. Jack (2002) iv. 73 Next to the office was the parking lot,..with the gate on the street providing the only egress. Compounds General attributive, with the sense ‘that enables or allows for egress’. ΚΠ 1816 Q. Jrnl. Sci. & Arts July 280 The pipe which furnishes the gas is connected at the axis at I..; and the egress pipe is similarly connected to the opposite extremity K. 1837 C. Babbage On Math. Powers Calculating Engine in Wks. (1989) III. 16 Two axes with figure wheels, I the ingress axis and ʺA the egress axis connect the mill with the store. 1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 22 Dec. 5/2 Another improvement is the egress chamber, through which a diver may step out and operate upon a submarine mine or an ironclad overhead. 1916 Southern Engineer Mar. 7/2 The position of egress ports, if many, may defeat the purpose of a furnace. 1980 U.S. Patent 4,235,678 1/2 Egress valves and locks are provided. 2003 Independent 3 Feb. 15/5 The Highways Agency must consider installing extra egress points..to enable emergency clearance under police control. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). egressv. Brit. /ᵻˈɡrɛs/, U.S. /əˈɡrɛs/, /iˈɡrɛs/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: egress n. Etymology: < egress n. Compare earlier ingress v., regress v. Now chiefly U.S. 1. intransitive. To go out, leave; to exit from. Now also transitive: to leave or exit (a place).In quot. 1578 in perfect tense formed with to be. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > go or come out [verb (intransitive)] outgoeOE to come outOE forthcomeOE to go outOE to go outOE ishc1330 to take forth one's way (also journey, road, etc.)a1375 proceedc1380 getc1390 exorta1400 issue?a1400 precedec1425 purgea1430 to come forthc1449 suea1450 ushc1475 to call one's way (also course)1488 to turn outa1500 void1558 redound1565 egress1578 outpacea1596 result1598 pursue1651 out1653 pop1770 to get out1835 progress1851 1578 J. Banister Hist. Man viii. f. 111^v Two other payre of sinewes..Which after they are egressed or gone forth, beget also, by together knittyng, one notable nerue. 1757 C. N. Jenty Course Anatomico-physiol. Lect. III. v. 119 The Optic Nerve;..egressing from the Middle or Apex of the Papilla, divides in the Center of the Retina. 1800 Laws Yale-College iii. 15 They shall note down those, who are absent from, come late to, or egress from, prayers and other public exercises in the Chapel. 1824 C. Fry Assistant of Educ. Dec. 330 Had I not in the midst of my soliloquy egressed from this same wood, and..found myself upon the beach. 1866 J. B. Rose tr. Ovid Fasti ii. 203 Forth from the camp egress'd their bands. 1900 M. De Mankowski tr. A. Jablonski Ten Years in Cossack Slavery xxi. 159 The survivors of the army re-entered Orenbourg, from whence they not long since egressed with faith in victory and plunder. 1970 N. Armstrong et al. First on Moon iii. 66 I..was ready to egress. 1989 Airforce July 46/2 (advt.) The first section is off and egressing the area. The second section is just into its run. 2005 J. Shane Sky Hunters: X-battalion 351 These battered soldiers were some kind of super-secret Special Ops team and they'd just egressed from North Korea. 2. transitive. To cause to go out or leave; spec. (in early use) to emit, send out.Much less frequent than sense 1. ΚΠ 1663 G. Harvey Archelogia Philosophica Nova II. ii. iii. 244 One Element being predominant,..must needs make way for its effumation, and afterwards break through by egressing fumes. 1772 tr. J. Böhme Mysterium Magnum ii, in Wks. III. 11 That which is egressed is called the Lubet of the Deity. 1908 N.Y. Med. Jrnl. 14 Nov. 925/1 That one element..must needs make way for its effumation, and afterwards break through by egressing fumes. 1969 Charleston (W. Va.) Daily Mail 15 Nov. 2/4 If I saw lightning strike within three or four miles of the pad I would have given serious consideration to egressing the crew. 2013 K. Maloney in F. Allahdadi et al. Safety Design for Space Operations ii. 51 A single cab on a slidewire that egressed the astronauts from the capsule level of the launch tower to the ground. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1528v.1578
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