[f. prec. sb.] intr. To make one’s exit, depart, disappear; fig. to decease, die.
1607. Barley-Breake (1877), 10. Much like vnto a Player on a stage … As one distract doth exit in a rage.
a. 1652. Brome, Love-sick Court, II. i. My souls better part exited, left The other languishing.
1806. Surr, Winter in Lond., I. 201. [She would become] duchess of Delaware, if old Pomposo would exit.
1844. W. H. Maxwell, Fort. O’Halloran, vii. She exited from the chamber.
1890. Temple Bar, Aug., 579. I desire to exit with the fiddlers playing, the foot-lights ablaze, the house looking on.
