EXEAT

The permi ion given by the authorities in a college, to persons in statu pupillar i , to leave their college residence for a time. EXEDRÆ, in ecclesiastical antiquity, is the general name of such buildings as were distinct from the main body of the churches , and yet within the bounds of the Church, taken in its largest sense. Thus Eusebius, speaking of the church of Paul in us at Tyre, says, “When that curious artist had finished his famous structure within, he then set himself about the exedræ , or buildings that joined one to another by the sides of the church.” Among the exedræ , the chief was the baptistery , or place of baptism. Also the two vestries, or sacristies, as we should call them, still found in all Oriental churches; viz. the Diaconicum , wherein the sacred utensils, . were kept; and the Prothesis , where the side-table stood, on which the elements before consecration were placed.— Jebb.