Also 9 exod. [anglicized form of EXODUS. Cf. Fr. exode.]

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  † 1.  The Book of Exodus; = EXODUS 1. Obs.

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a. 1225.  Ancr. R., 196. I þisse wildernesse wende ure Louerdes folc, ase Exode telleð.

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  2.  = EXODUS 2 a. Somewhat rare.

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a. 1751.  Bolingbroke, Minutes Ess., Wks. 1754, V. 141. They [the Israelites] could bring, at the time of the Exode, six hundred thousand fighting men into the field.

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1826.  G. Higgins, Horæ Sabbat. (1833), 41. The Sabbath was first … instituted, on their exod from Egypt.

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1853.  G. S. Faber, Downf. of Turkey, 47. The circumstances of the exode.

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  3.  transf. = EXODUS 2 c.

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1882.  T. M. Post, in Chicago Advance, 22 June. The Exode [of colored people from the South about 1880].

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