Crossword clues for exode
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Exode \Ex"ode\n. [L. exodium, Gr. ? (sc. ? song) fr. ? belonging to an exit, or to the finale of a tragedy, fr. ?: cf. F. exode. See Exodus.]
Departure; exodus; esp., the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt. [Obs.]
--L. Coleman.
--Bolingbroke.(Gr. Drama) The final chorus; the catastrophe.
(Rom. Antiq.) An afterpiece of a comic description, either a farce or a travesty.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete English) departure; exodus, especially the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt 2 (context Ancient Greek drama English) The final chorus; the catastrophe. 3 (context historical Ancient Rome English) A comic afterpiece, either a farce or a travesty.
WordNet
n. a farcical afterpiece in the ancient Roman theater
Usage examples of "exode".
New England shall have risen to its intended grandeur, it shall be as carefully recorded among the registers of the literati that Adams flourished in the second century after the exode of its first settlers from Great Britain, as it is now that Cicero was born in the six-hundred-and-forty-seventh year after the building of Rome.
New England shall have risen to its intended grandeur, it shall be as carefully recorded among the registers of the literati that Adams flourished in the second century after the exode of its first settlers from Great Britain, as it is now that Cicero was born in the six-hundred-and-forty-seventh year after the building of Rome.