exode

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noun

departure; exodus, especially the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt

“a. 1751, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, an essay constant or standing miracles before the exode , at the exode , in the wilderness , in the promised land , under their judges , and under their kings”

Scrabble 13

Meanings

nounexode (plural exodes)

plural exodes

  1. obsoletedeparture; exodus, especially the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt

    a. 1751, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, an essay constant or standing miracles before the exode , at the exode , in the wilderness , in the promised land , under their judges , and under their kings

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    Moreover, the continuation of the Mosaic Dispensation from the Exode, 1586, to the burning of the second temple, A.D. 70 = 1656, is exactly the period before the Flood.

    1868, Lyman Coleman, An Historical Text Book and Atlas of Biblical Geography, page 45
  2. Ancient GreekbroadcastingThe final chorus; the catastrophe.
  3. Ancient RomehistoricalA comic afterpiece, either a farce or a travesty.

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Origin

  1. Ancient Greekἐξόδιον
  2. Latinexodium
  3. Englishexode

From Latin exodium, from Ancient Greek ἐξόδιον (exódion).

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