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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.

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("Guardian Angels" were school-appointed guardians for children who could not go home for exeats, half-terms and holidays mostly because their parents lived overseas.
Learning from life: as I recently celebrated my 40th birthday, I have been reflecting on a lot of things. And I must say, at the time when certain things happen, we sometimes do not understand. But looking back at the last 17 years of my life, I have to give thanks to God for it all
O'Leary, in fact, had a formal pact with his brother, the Bishop of Charlottetown, EE.I.: seminarians were permitted exeats from the Island only if they intended to go to Edmonton, an exclusiveness resented by Bishop McNally in Calgary, himself an Islander.
The Maritimes region and the building of a Canadian Church: the case of the Diocese of Antigonish after confederation
The Purcell School in Bushey, Hertfordshire, is where Amir spends most of his time, 'but for some holidays and exeats. I come to my guardians who live on a farm in Warwickshire.
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