||Ex"it (?). [L., 3d pers. sing. pres. of exire to
go out. See Exeunt, Issue.] He (or she ) goes out,
or retires from view; as, exit Macbeth.
☞ The Latin words exit (he or she goes out), and
exeunt ( they go out), are used in dramatic writings to
indicate the time of withdrawal from the stage of one or more of the
actors.
Ex"it, n. [See 1st Exit.]
1. The departure of a player from the stage,
when he has performed his part.
They have their exits and their
entrances.
Shak.
2. Any departure; the act of quitting the
stage of action or of life; death; as, to make one's
exit.
Sighs for his exit, vulgarly called
death.
Cowper.
3. A way of departure; passage out of a
place; egress; way out.
Forcing the water forth through its ordinary
exits.
Woodward.