Exeat

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Exeat \Ex"e*at\, n. [L., let him go forth.]
     1. A license for absence from a college or a religious house.
        [Eng.] --Shipley.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. A permission which a bishop grants to a priest to go out


        of his diocese. --Wharton.
        [1913 Webster]

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  EXEAT, eccl. law. This is a Latin term, which is used to express the written 
  permission which a bishop gives to an ecclesiastic to exercise the functions 
  of his ministry in another diocese.