exode

1. (obsolete) departure; exodus, especially the exodus of the Israelites from EgyptExamples: "a. 1751, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, an essay constant or standing miracles before the exode , at the exode , in the wilderness , in the promised land , under their judges , and under their kings"; "Moreover, the continuation of the Mosaic Dispensation from the Exode, 1586, to the burning of the second temple, A.D. 70 = 1656, is exactly the period before the Flood."

2. (Ancient Greek drama) The final chorus; the catastrophe.

3. (historical, Ancient Rome) A comic afterpiece, either a farce or a travesty.