exode

Definitions

  • WordNet 3.6
    • n exode a farcical afterpiece in the ancient Roman theater
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
    • Exode (Rom. Antiq) An afterpiece of a comic description, either a farce or a travesty.
    • Exode Departure; exodus; esp., the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.
    • Exode (Gr. Drama) The final chorus; the catastrophe.
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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
    • n exode Same as exodus.
    • n exode In the Gr. drama, the concluding part of a play, or the part which comprehends all that, is said after the last choral ode.
    • n exode In the Rom. drama, a farce or satire, played as an afterpiece or as an interlude.
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Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
    • n Exode ek′sōd the concluding part of a Greek drama: a farce or afterpiece.
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Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
L. exodium, Gr. (sc. song) fr. belonging to an exit, or to the finale of a tragedy, fr. : cf. F. exode,. See Exodus
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
Gr.

Usage

In literature:

The Exode is that entire part of a tragedy which has no choric song after it.
"Poetics" by Aristotle
The same is found again, Exod.
"Leviathan" by Thomas Hobbes
The leading directions as to the disposal of the Canaanites, are mainly in the following passages, Exod.
"The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4" by American Anti-Slavery Society
The leading directions as to the disposal of the Canaanites, are mainly in the following passages, Exod.
"The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus" by American Anti-Slavery Society
It appears from Exod.
"The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 20, Issue 563, August 25, 1832" by Various
Why, in the Old Testament, where it uniformly implies doubt and distrust; in Exod.
"Journal of a Residence at Bagdad" by Anthony Groves
The expression, "Angel of the face," arose from a combination of Exod.
"Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, v. 1" by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg
In like manner we read in Exod.
"Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2" by Ernst Hengstenberg
It is mentioned in Exod.
"Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4" by Various
Prosperity (Gen. 47:11), followed by oppression (Exod.
"Training the Teacher" by A. F. Schauffler
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