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]
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.