exit.html - n. & v.
--n.

1 a passage or door by which to leave a room, building, etc.
2 a the act of going out. b the right to go out.
3 a place where vehicles can leave a motorway or major road.
4 the departure of an actor from the stage.
5 death.

--v.

intr. (exited, exiting)
1 go out of a room, building, etc.
2 (as a stage direction) (an actor) leaves the stage (exit Macbeth).
3 die.

exit permit (or visa etc.) authorization to leave a particular country. [L, 3rd sing. pres. of exire go out (as EX-(1), ire go): cf. L exitus going out]

exit.html - n.
(pl. -ies) (also exigence)
1 an urgent need or demand.
2 an emergency. [F exigence & LL exigentia (as EXIGENT)]

exit.html - adj.
1 requiring much; exacting.
2 urgent, pressing. [ME f. L exigere EXACT]

exit.html - adj.
scanty, small.

exiguity n. exiguously adv. exiguousness n. [L exiguus scanty f. exigere weigh exactly: see EXACT]

exit.html - n. & v.
--n.

1 expulsion, or the state of being expelled, from one's native land or (internal exile) native town etc.
2 long absence abroad, esp. enforced.
3 a person expelled or long absent from his or her native country.
4 (the Exile) the captivity of the Jews in Babylon in the 6th c. BC.

--v.

tr. (foll. by from) officially expel (a person) from his or her native country or town etc.

exilic adj. (esp. in sense 4 of n.). [ME f. OF exil, exiler f. L exilium banishment]

exit.html - v.intr.
1 have a place as part of objective reality.
2 a have being under specified conditions. b (foll. by as) exist in the form of.
3 (of circumstances etc.) occur; be found.
4 live with no pleasure under adverse conditions (felt he was merely existing).
5 continue in being; maintain life (can hardly exist on this salary).
6 be alive, live. [prob. back-form. f. EXISTENCE; cf. LL existere]