Definition of Exeat

1. n. A license for absence from a college or a religious house.

Definition of Exeat

1. Noun. A license or permit for absence from a college or a religious house (such as a monastery) ¹

2. Noun. A permission which a bishop grants to a priest to go out of his diocese ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Exeat

1. formal leave of absence [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Exeat

excusers
excuses
excusing
excusion
excusive
excuss
excussion
excussions
excycloduction
excyclophoria
excyclotorsion
excyclotropia
excyclovergence
excystation
exduction
exeat (current term)
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exec
exec.
execrable
execrableness
execrablenesses
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execrated
execrates
execrating
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execrations
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Literary usage of Exeat

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent, John Melville Gould, Oliver Wendell Holmes (1901)
"[PART iv. with this writ ; and in this country, the writ of ne exeat is not in ... (.r) The writ of ne exeat régna may be granted in equity under the prayer ..."

2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1845)
"Ve exeat Regno not discharged (a). THE Defendant being in custody of the sheriff upon a civil suit for debt, was brought into Court upon a Writ of Habeas ..."

3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1845)
"Ye exeat Regno in the Bill .iot essential; nor affidavit of the as, where received from ... No notice of Motion for the writ of Ne exeat Regno, [p: 355. ..."

4. Commentaries on Equity Jurisprudence as Administered in England and America by Joseph Story (1918)
"The writ of Ne exeat Regno, or, as it is sometimes termed, Ne exeat Regnum, is a prerogative writ, which is issued, as its name imports, to prevent a person ..."

5. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: From by Francis Vesey, Great Britain Court of Chancery (1827)
"Writ of Ne A MOTION was made for a writ of Ne exeat ... for the writ of Nc exeat Regno in the Bill not (R4) Ante, Vol. V, 96. (85) Ante, Vol. XV I, 470. ..."

6. A Treatise on Federal Practice, Civil and Criminal: Including Practice in by Roger Foster (1920)
"THE WRIT OF NE exeat REPUBLICA. § 326. Definition of the writ of ne exeat republica, and when it will issue. The writ of ne exeat republica is a writ which ..."

7. Pleading and Practice of the High Court of Chancery by Edmund Robert Daniell, William Frierson Cooper, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1894)
"Prayer for a ne exeat.] And that the said defendants may be stayed by a writ of ne exeat regno from departing out of the jurisdiction of this Court. ..."

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