Departure

(de-pârt'yur, 53), n. [From depart, q. v.; Fr. départ.]

1. The act of departing or going away; separation or removal from a place. “Departure from this happy place.” Milton.
2. Removal from the present life; death; decease; passing away.

His timely departure . . . barred him from the knowledge of his son's miseries. Sidney.

3. Deviation or abandonment, as of a rule of duty, of an action, or of a plan or purpose. “Any departure from a national standard.” Prescott.
4. Division; separation; putting away, as by divorce. [Obs.] “No other remedy or retirement . . . but absolute departure.” Milton.
5. (Navigation & Surv.) The distance east or west, as of a ship or the end of a course, from the particular meridian from which the vessel or course departs; the distance between two meridians passing through the extremities of a course.
6. (Law.) The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another. Bouvier.

Syn.—Death; demise; release. See DEATH.