exeat

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My name's down for the exeat, you know Violet regarded Diana for a moment or two as if making mental calculations You couldn't do it," she decided at last.

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  1. Leave of absence granted to a student in the English universities. Exeats, or permission to go down during term, were never granted but in cases of life and death, and an unusual number of chapels were exacted. [Cambridge.] C. A. Bristed, English University, p. 181, note.
  2. Permission granted by a bishop to a priest to leave his diocese. See ne exeat.

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  • Your college and tutors will grant you an exeat, while you attend to your urgent family business. —  The Beekeeper’s Apprentice - Laurie R. King - Russell-Holmes 01
  • My name's down for the exeat, you know Violet regarded Diana for a moment or two as if making mental calculations You couldn't do it," she decided at last. —  A harum-scarum schoolgirl
  • But he didn't enjoy his exeat, because he knew that Cæsar was in trouble. —  The Hill A Romance of Friendship
  • Glad of a change, he easily obtained an exeat, and went down on the Saturday morning. —  Julian Home
  • I asked Winter when I went for my exeat if we might have you, and he said, 'Yes; he'd be very glad.' —  Follow My leader The Boys of Templeton
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  1. Latin, let him depart, 3d person singular present subjunctive of exire, go out, depart: see exit.
 

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