depart

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To leave.

   • […] he that hath no ſtomacke to this feaſt, Let him depart, […]
   • The glory is departed from Israel.
   • With very little excuse for departing so abruptly, Ralph left him, […]
2. 2

   To set out on a journey.

   • Elizabeth saw her friend depart for Port-Breedy, […]
   • Distant acclamations, words of command yelled out, and a roll of drums on the jetty greeted the departing general.
3. 3

   To die.

   • […] his Tongue, Sounds euer after as a ſullen Bell Remembred, knolling a departing Friend.
   • Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace.
   • And, as the Cock crew, those who stood before The Tavern shouted — "Open then the Door! You know how little while we have to stay, And, once departed, may return no more."
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   1. 4

      To disappear, vanish

      To disappear, vanish; to cease to exist.

      • For youth departs, and pleasure flies, And life consumes away,
      • An extraordinary joie de vivre had come over them all as soon as the shaky feeling departed from their legs.
      • […] then he knew it was Elisha, and his fear departed.
   2. 5

      To deviate (from), be different (from), fail to conform.

      • His latest statements seemed to depart from party policy somewhat.
      • to depart from a title or defence in legal pleading
   3. 6

      To go away from

      To go away from; to leave.

      • [...] he [...] did pray them only to do no thing against the honor of God, & rather to depart the territories of his empire, then to suffer their consciences to be forced.
      • Then, departing the palace, he [Thomas Becket] asked the king's immediate permission to leave Northampton; [...]
      • At one stage, when I happened to depart the room in the midst of an address by one of the German gentlemen, M. Dupont suddenly rose and followed me out.
   4. 7

      To lose control of an aircraft

      To lose control of an aircraft; to "depart" (sense 5) from controlled flight (with the aircraft as the direct object)

      • The envelope protection system allows the pilot to maneuver at high angles of attack without the risk of departing the airplane
   5. 8

      To divide up

      To divide up; to distribute, share.

      • and so all the worlde seythe that betwyxte three knyghtes is departed clerely knyghthode, that is Sir Launcelot du Lake, Sir Trystrams de Lyones and Sir Lamerok de Galys—thes bere now the renowne.
      • Then fortified hee his trenches, and departed them in foure quarters, wherein he made good store of fires, in such distance one from another, as are woont to be made in a campe.
      • Fyrst on that day yee shall serue a calfe sodden and blessed, and sodden egs with greene sauce, and set them before the most principall estate, and that Lorde because of his high estate, shal depart them al about him [...]
   6. 9

      To separate, part.

      • Syr knyght[,] said the two squyers that were with her[,] yonder are two knyghtes that fyghte for thys lady, goo thyder and departe them[…].
      • Thies be than the causes [...] for the whiche we depart our selues from the Athenyans [...]
   7. 10

      Division

      Division; separation, as of compound substances.

   8. 11

      A going away

      A going away; departure.

      • at my depart for France
      • Of that short Roll of friends writ in my heart Which with thy name begins, since their depart, Whether in the English Provinces they be, Or drinke of Po, Sequan, or Danubie,

The neighborhood

• antonymarriveantonym(s) of “to leave”
• antonymcomeantonym(s) of “to leave”
• antonymstayantonym(s) of “to leave”
• antonymliveantonym(s) of “to die”
• antonymconformantonym(s) of “to deviate”
• neighbordeparture
• neighbordearly departed