depart Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb move away from a place into another direction
    go; go away.
    • Go away before I start to cry
    • The train departs at noon
  2. verb be at variance with; be out of line with
    vary; deviate; diverge.
  3. verb leave
    set forth; set off; start out; start; part; set out; take off.
    • The family took off for Florida
  4. verb go away or leave
    quit; take leave.
  5. verb remove oneself from an association with or participation in
    leave; pull up stakes.
    • She wants to leave
    • The teenager left home
    • She left her position with the Red Cross
    • He left the Senate after two terms
    • after 20 years with the same company, she pulled up stakes
  6. verb wander from a direct or straight course
    straggle; digress; sidetrack.

WordNet

De*part" intransitive verb
Etymology
OE. departen to divide, part, depart, F. départir to divide, distribute, se départir to separate one's self, depart; pref. dé- (L. de) + partir to part, depart, fr. L. partire, partiri, to divide, fr. pars part. See Part.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Departed; present participle & verbal noun Departing
Definitions
  1. To part; to divide; to separate. Obs. Shak.
  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. Milton.
    He which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart. Shak.
  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.
    Shak.
De*part" transitive verb
Definitions
  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.
De*part" noun
Etymology
Cf. F. départ, fr. départir.
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913