rare. [f. EXODE sb. + -IST.]
1. One who makes an exodus. In quot. applied to the Israelites.
1883. R. F. Burton, in Academy, 5 May, 311/2. The Exodists would naturally travel by the present Háj highway from Suez to El-’Akabah.
2. One who departs or goes out from one place to settle in another; an emigrant.
1849. Lowell, Biglow P., Wks. (1879), 179. Want was the prime foe these hardy exodists had to fortress themselves against.
