depart
verb
- to go away, leave, physically or figuratively
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /dɪˈpɑːt/ / /dɪˈpɑɹt/
noun
Etymology: From Old French departir, from Late Latin departiō (“to divide”), from dē- (“away from”) + partiō (“part, divide”).
- Division; separation, as of compound substances.
- 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,”
verb
Etymology: From Old French departir, from Late Latin departiō (“to divide”), from dē- (“away from”) + partiō (“part, divide”).
- To leave.
“[…] he that hath no ſtomacke to this feaſt, Let him depart, […]”
“The glory is departed from Israel.”
- To set out on a journey.
“And soo she receyued hym vpon suffysaunt seurte / so alle her hurtes were wel restored of al that she coude complayne / and thenne he departed vnto the Courte of kyne Arthur / and there openly the reed knyghte of the reed laundes putte hym in the mercy of syre Launcelot and syr Gawayne”
“Elizabeth saw her friend depart for Port-Breedy, […]”
- 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.”
- 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.”
- 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”
- 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; [...]”
- 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”
- 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.”
- 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[…].”
“I .N. take thee .N. to my wedded wife, to haue ⁊ to holde from this day forwarde, for better, for wurſe, for richer, for poorer, in ſickenes, and in health, to loue, and to cheriſhe, til death vs departe: according to Goddes holy ordeinaunce: And therto I plight thee my trouth.”