Priest's leave

• Old girlfriend, perhaps, to dine and pass out
• Permission to leave Oxford
• Permission to be off
• Permission for absence
• Priest's permission to leave
• Letter permitting a cleric to transfer
• Permission granted by a bishop
• Grant of clerical leave

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Exeat \Ex"e*at\, n. [L., let him go forth.] A license for absence from a college or a religious house. [Eng.] --Shipley. A permission which a bishop grants to a priest to go out of his diocese. --Wharton.