exeat

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin exeat, third-person singular subjunctive of exeō (“depart”) used as an impersonal imperative, literally “let him go forth”.

exeat means A license or permit for absence from a university or a religious house (such as a monastery). Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

Why this word is great

EXEAT — [Noun] A formal permission for temporary absence from a university, college, or religious institution. Its etymology is a command: borrowed from Latin exeat, the third-person singular present subjunctive of exire ("to go out"), used as an impersonal imperative meaning "let him/her go forth." Unlike "leave," a bland administrative term for authorized time away, or "furlough," which carries the bureaucratic heft of state or military service, an exeat is a minor sacrament of institutional release. It is the crisp, signed slip passed from a dean's hand; the embossed card permitting a seminarian to step beyond the garden wall; the brittle document that transforms containment into sanctioned release. It is liberty, but liberty with an expiration date, a small bureaucratic reprieve that, by its very granting, defines the walls one temporarily leaves behind.

noun

A license or permit for absence from a university or a religious house (such as a monastery).
A permission which a bishop grants to a priest to go out of his diocese.
Leave of absence from a public school or college.“[I]t was impossible to imagine her doing anything except eating ice-cream and smoking, like a child on an exeat from school.”
A stage direction to leave the stage.