Depart /(?)/

De·part

Depart

v. i.

imp. & p. p. Departed; p. pr. & vb. n. Departing

  1. To part; to divide; to separate. [Obs.]
  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.
    He which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart.
  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.

Phrases & Compounds

To depart with
to resign; to part with.

Depart

v. t.
  1. To part thoroughly; to dispart; to divide; to separate. [Obs.]
    Till death departed them, this life they lead.
  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.
  3. To leave; to depart from.

Depart

n.
  1. Division; separation, as of compound substances into their ingredients. [Obs.]
    The chymists have a liquor called water of depart.
  2. A going away; departure; hence, death. [Obs.]
    At my depart for France.
    Your loss and his depart.