Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Exit

Exit

[Latin, third person singular present 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.

Exit , noun

[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. — Shakespeare
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