Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Termination of a disease: usually an unfavorable ending: as, lethal exitus.
  • noun The external opening of a canal; meatus.
  • noun In law: Issue; offspring.
  • noun Yearly rent or profits of land.

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Examples

  • This is what St. Thomas Aquinas, following the Pseudo-Dionysius, called the exitus and reditus of God.

    On The Same Old Thing Mike L 2007

  • This is what St. Thomas Aquinas, following the Pseudo-Dionysius, called the exitus and reditus of God.

    Archive 2007-06-01 Mike L 2007

  • This is what St. Thomas Aquinas, following the Pseudo-Dionysius, called the exitus and reditus of God.

    Meditation for Trinity Sunday Mike L 2006

  • One should remember, however, that by restricting himself to giving a purely philosophical account of the nature of being and the universe Dietrich was not free to speculate theologically about whether exitus or reditus had any rôle to play in the life of the Trinity.

    Dietrich of Freiberg Führer, Markus 2009

  • Patet exitus; si pugnare non vultis, licet fugere; quis vos tenet invitos?

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Sed deficiente crumena: et crescente gula, quis te manet exitus — rebus in ventrem mersis.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Trepano etiam cranii densitas imminui poterit, ut vaporibus fuliginosis exitus pateat.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • On one level, the exitus is creation itself, and reditus is simply the right ordering of creation to its source.

    Reditus Mike L 2007

  • [1868] Tristes voluptatum exitus, et quisquis voluptatum suarum reminisci volet, intelliget, as bitter as gall and wormwood is their last; grief of mind, madness itself.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Lusitani, inquit, quorundum civitates adierunt: qui natis statim faeminis naturam consuunt, quoad urinae exitus ne impediatur, easque quum adoleverint sic consutas in matrimonium collocant, ut sponsi prima cura sit conglutinatas puellae oras ferro interscindere.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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