单词 | exeat |
释义 | exeatv.n. A. v. In Latin use as verb. In plays of the early 16th cent. used as a stage direction, equivalent to the later exit v.1 ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > written or printed text > [verb (intransitive)] > stage directions exeantc1485 exeuntc1485 exeata1556 re-enterc1590 exit1607 a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) i. ii. sig. B.ij (stage direct.) Exeat. B. n. A permission to go out. [So used in French.] 1. A permission to leave the diocese, granted to a priest by the bishop. ΚΠ 1730 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum Exeat, (i.e. let him go out) a term used in church-discipline for a permission, which a bishop grants to a priest to go out of his diocese. 1855 R. Boyle Boyle versus Wiseman 71 Armed with the above exeat, I immediately applied for employment to the..Bishop of Southwark. 2. In English public schools and colleges, in monastic houses, etc.: a permission for temporary absence. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > permission > [noun] > permission to be absent exeat1728 furlough1763 leave of absence1767 out1845 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) His Master has given him an Exeat. 1806 K. White Let. 30 June He would not give me an exeat, without which no man can leave his college for the night. 1852 C. A. Bristed Five Years Eng. University I. 193 (note) Exeats..were never granted [at King's Coll. Camb.] but in cases of life and death. 1859 F. W. Farrar Julian Home xx. 259 How shall I get my exeat to go to London? Derivatives ˈexeant v. ‘let (them) go out’, for which exeunt v. was afterwards used.) ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > written or printed text > [verb (intransitive)] > stage directions exeantc1485 exeuntc1485 exeata1556 re-enterc1590 exit1607 c1485 Digby Myst. (1882) i. 275 Exeant. ˈexeant n. such a permission granted to more than one person. ΚΠ 1878 Mill Hill Mag. 86 Armed with our exeants, we may now go forth freely, and view nature in one of her most lovely aspects. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < v.n.c1485 |
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