exeat

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ex=e=at

CIDE DICTIONARY

exeat, n. [L., let him go forth.].

•  A license for absence from a college or a religious house.  Shipley.  [1913 Webster]
•  A permission which a bishop grants to a priest to go out of his diocese.  Wharton.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

exeat, n. Brit. permission granted to a student by a college for temporary absence or permission granted to a priest by a bishop to move to another diocese.

Etymology

L, 3rd sing. pres. subjunctive of exire go out (as EX-(1), ire go)