v. i.
I will depart to mine own land. Num. x. 30. [ 1913 Webster ]
Ere thou from hence depart. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
He which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
If the plan of the convention be found to depart from republican principles. Madison. [ 1913 Webster ]
The glory is departed from Israel. 1 Sam. iv. 21. [ 1913 Webster ]
Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace. Luke ii. 29. [ 1913 Webster ]
To depart with,
v. t.
Till death departed them, this life they lead. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
And here is gold, and that full great plentee,
That shall departed been among us three. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. F. départ, fr. départir. ]
The chymists have a liquor called water of depart. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]
At my depart for France. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Your loss and his depart. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Divisible. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. sing. & pl. someone who is no longer alive;
adj.
n.
adj. leaving a starting or stopping point on a journey;
n. [ F. département, fr. départir. See Depart, v. i. ]
Sudden departments from one extreme to another. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]
Superior to Pope in Pope's own peculiar department of literature. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Pertaining to a department or division. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]
. A store keeping a great variety of goods which are arranged in several departments. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]
n. [ From Depart. ]
No other remedy . . . but absolute departure. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
Departure from this happy place. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
The time of my departure is at hand. 2 Tim. iv. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]
His timely departure . . . barred him from the knowledge of his son's miseries. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]
Any departure from a national standard. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ Since the meridians sensibly converge, the departure in navigation is not measured from the beginning nor from the end of the ship's course, but is regarded as the total easting or westing made by the ship or person as he travels over the course. [ 1913 Webster ]
To take a departure (Nav. & Surv.),
v. t. To distribute wrongly. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
He misdeparteth riches temporal. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A subordinate department; a bureau. See the Note under Bureau. [ 1913 Webster ]
. (Mil.) A staff department of the United States army charged, under the supervision of the Chief of Staff, with the purchasing and issuing to the army of such supplies as make up the ration. It also supplies, for authorized sales, certain articles of food and other minor stores. It is commanded by any officer of the rank of brigadier general, called commissary general, and the department is popularly called the
a. Incapable of being parted; inseparable. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. Wyclif. [ 1913 Webster ]