Also 9 exod. [anglicized form of EXODUS. Cf. Fr. exode.]
† 1. The Book of Exodus; = EXODUS 1. Obs.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 196. I þisse wildernesse wende ure Louerdes folc, ase Exode telleð.
2. = EXODUS 2 a. Somewhat rare.
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.
1826. G. Higgins, Horæ Sabbat. (1833), 41. The Sabbath was first instituted, on their exod from Egypt.
1853. G. S. Faber, Downf. of Turkey, 47. The circumstances of the exode.
3. transf. = EXODUS 2 c.
1882. T. M. Post, in Chicago Advance, 22 June. The Exode [of colored people from the South about 1880].