Ex'it, n.
n. [Lat., the third person present of exire, to go out, from ex, out, and ire, to go.]
Sense 1. The departure of a player from the stage, when he has performed his part.
They have their exits and their entrances. Shak.
☞ 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.
Sense 2. Any departure; the act of quitting the stage of action or of life; death; decease.
Sighs for his exit, vulgarly called death. Cooper.
Sense 3. A way of departure; passage out of a place. “Forcing the water out through its ordinary exits.” Woodward.