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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DEPART, v.i.
1. To go or move from.
Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire. Matthew 25.
It is followed by from, or from is implied before the place left.
I will depart to my own land, that is, I will depart from this place to my own land. Numbers 10.
2. To go from; to leave; to desist, as from a practice. Jehu departed not from the sins of Jeroboam. Jehoshaphat departed not from the way of Asa his father.
3. To leave; to deviate from; to forsake; not to adhere to or follow; as, we cannot depart from our rules.
I have not departed from thy judgments. Psalms 119.
4. To desist; to leave; to abandon; as, he would not depart from his purpose, resolution, or demand.
5. To be lost; to perish; to vanish; as, his glory has departed.
6. To die; to decease; to leave this world.
Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word. Luke 2.
To depart this life is elliptical, from being understood.
8. To cease.
The prey departeth not. Nahum 3.
9. To deviate; to vary from.
If the plan of the convention be found to depart from republican principles-
10. To vary; to deviate from the title or defense in pleading.
11. To part with.
To depart from God, is to forsake his service and live in sin; to apostatize; to revolt; to desert his government and laws.
God departs from men, when he abandons them to their own sinful inclinations, or ceases to bestow on them his favor. Hosea 9.
DEPART, v.t. To divide or separate; to part.
DEPART, n.
1. The act of going away; death.
2. Division; separation.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: move away from a place into another direction; "Go away before I start to cry"; "The train departs at noon" [syn: go, go away, depart] [ant: come, come up]
2: be at variance with; be out of line with [syn: deviate, vary, diverge, depart] [ant: conform]
3: leave; "The family took off for Florida" [syn: depart, part, start, start out, set forth, set off, set out, take off]
4: go away or leave [syn: depart, take leave, quit] [ant: stay]
5: remove oneself from an association with or participation in; "She wants to leave"; "The teenager left home"; "She left her position with the Red Cross"; "He left the Senate after two terms"; "after 20 years with the same company, she pulled up stakes" [syn: leave, depart, pull up stakes]
6: wander from a direct or straight course [syn: sidetrack, depart, digress, straggle]

Merriam Webster's

verb Etymology: Middle English, to divide, part company, from Anglo-French departir, from de- + partir to divide, from Latin partire, from part-, pars part Date: 13th century intransitive verb 1. a. to go away ; leave b. die 2. to turn aside ; deviate transitive verb to go away from ; leave Synonyms: see swerve

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. 1 intr. a (usu. foll. by from) go away; leave (the train departs from this platform). b (usu. foll. by for) start; set out (trains depart for Crewe every hour). 2 intr. (usu. foll. by from) diverge; deviate (departs from standard practice). 3 a intr. leave by death; die. b tr. formal or literary leave by death (departed this life). Etymology: ME f. OF departir ult. f. L dispertire divide

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Depart De*part", v. t. 1. To part thoroughly; to dispart; to divide; to separate. [Obs.] Till death departed them, this life they lead. --Chaucer. 2. To divide in order to share; to apportion. [Obs.] And here is gold, and that full great plentee, That shall departed been among us three. --Chaucer. 3. To leave; to depart from. ``He departed this life.'' --Addison. ``Ere I depart his house.'' --Shak.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Depart De*part", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Departed; p. pr. & vb. n. Departing.] [OE. departen to divide, part, depart, F. d['e]partir to divide, distribute, se d['e]partir to separate one's self, depart; pref. d['e]- (L. de) + partir to part, depart, fr. L. partire, partiri, to divide, fr. pars part. See Part.] 1. To part; to divide; to separate. [Obs.] --Shak. 2. To go forth or away; to quit, leave, or separate, as from a place or a person; to withdraw; -- opposed to arrive; -- often with from before the place, person, or thing left, and for or to before the destination. I will depart to mine own land. --Num. x. 30. Ere thou from hence depart. --Milton. He which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart. --Shak. 3. To forsake; to abandon; to desist or deviate (from); not to adhere to; -- with from; as, we can not depart from our rules; to depart from a title or defense in legal pleading. If the plan of the convention be found to depart from republican principles. --Madison. 4. To pass away; to perish. The glory is departed from Israel. --1 Sam. iv. 21. 5. To quit this world; to die. Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace. --Luke ii. 29. To depart with, to resign; to part with. [Obs.] --Shak.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Depart De*part", n. [Cf. F. d['e]part, fr. d['e]partir.] 1. Division; separation, as of compound substances into their ingredients. [Obs.] The chymists have a liquor called water of depart. --Bacon. 2. A going away; departure; hence, death. [Obs.] At my depart for France. --Shak. Your loss and his depart. --Shak.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(departs, departing, departed) 1. When something or someone departs from a place, they leave it and start a journey to another place. Our tour departs from Heathrow Airport on 31 March and returns 16 April... In the morning Mr McDonald departed for Sydney... The coach departs Potsdam in the morning. VERB: V from n, V for n, V n 2. If you depart from a traditional, accepted, or agreed way of doing something, you do it in a different or unexpected way. Why is it in this country that we have departed from good educational sense?... = deviate VERB: V from n 3. If someone departs from a job, they resign from it or leave it. In American English, you can say that someone departs a job. Lipton is planning to depart from the company he founded. ...a number of staff departed during his reign as rector of the Royal College of Art... He departed baseball in the '60s. VERB: V from n, V, V n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. n. 1. Disappear, vanish, go away. 2. Go, start, set out, set forward, be off, take leave, bid adieu, bid farewell, take one's departure, make one's exit, take one's self off. 3. Die, decease, leave the world.

Moby Thesaurus

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