Depart | Webster's Dictionary (1865)

De-pārt’, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. [imp. & p. p. DEPARTED; p. pr. & vb. n. DEPARTING.] [From Lat. de and partire, partiri, to part, divide, distribute, from pars, a part; Fr. départir, to divide, distribute, se départir, to separate one’s self, depart; partir, to divide, depart, O. Fr. se partir, to depart; Pr. departir, to separate, divide; Sp. departir, departirse, It. dipartire, dipartirsi. See PART, v.]

Sense 1. To go forth or away; to quit, leave, or separate from a place or person; opposed to arrive;—often with from before the place or thing left. “Ere thou from hence depart.” Milton.

He which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart. Shak.

Sense 2. To pass away; to vanish; to perish.

The glory is departed from Israel. 1 Sam. iv. 21.

Sense 3. To quit this world; to decease; to die.

Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace. Luke ii. 29.

Sense 4. To part;—followed by with. [Obs.] “Hath willingly departed with a part.” Shak.

To depart from, to forsake; to abandon; not to adhere to; 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.

De-pārt', v. t.

verbtransitive

Sense 1. To divide or separate; to sever; to part. [Obs.]

Sense 2. To divide in order to share. [Obs.] “That he depart with me the heritage.” Luke xii. 13. Wycliffe’s Trans.

Sense 3. To leave; to quit; to retire from; as, to depart this life. “Ere I depart his house.” Shak.

De-pārt’, n.

noun

n. 1. The act of departing; hence, death. [Obs.] “At my depart from France.” Shak. “Your loss and his depart.” Shak. 2. Division; separation; as of compound substances into their ingredients. [Obs.] “Water of depart.” Bacon.