Meanings
plural exodes
- 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 - Ancient GreekbroadcastingThe final chorus; the catastrophe.
- Ancient RomehistoricalA comic afterpiece, either a farce or a travesty.
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Ancient Greekἐξόδιον
- Latinexodium
- Englishexode
From Latin exodium, from Ancient Greek ἐξόδιον (exódion).
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