Definition of "absit"
absit1
noun
plural absits
(UK) Formal permission to be away from a college for the greater part of the day or more.
Quotations
Another associated matter was the subject of a discussion, on one occasion only, on the effect of an absit on a student's residence if he used it to be away from Cambridge from Saturday to Monday 'as is allowed at at least one College'.
1983, W. W. Grave, Fitzwilliam College Cambridge, 1869-1969, page 53