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.
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.
Depart
(De*part"), n. [Cf. F. départ, fr. départir.]
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. Departable
(De*part"a*ble) a. Divisible. [Obs.] Bacon.
Departer
(De*part"er) n.
1. One who refines metals by separation. [Obs.]
2. One who departs.
Department
(De*part"ment) n. [F. département, fr. départir. See Depart, v. i.]
1. Act of departing; departure. [Obs.]
Sudden departments from one extreme to another.
Wotton. 2. A part, portion, or subdivision.
3. A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province.
Superior to Pope in Pope's own peculiar department of literature.
Macaulay.