depart

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• WordNet 3.6
  • v depart move away from a place into another direction "Go away before I start to cry","The train departs at noon"
  • v depart go away or leave
  • v depart leave "The family took off for Florida"
  • v depart wander from a direct or straight course
  • v depart remove oneself from an association with or participation in "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"
  • v depart be at variance with; be out of line with
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"Alas! alas! where is our bliss departed?"

• Interesting fact: No one knows why, but 90 percent of women who walk into a department store immediately turn to the right.
• • Depart A going away; departure; hence, death. "At my depart for France.""Your loss and his depart ."
  • Depart Division; separation, as of compound substances into their ingredients. "The chymists have a liquor called water of depart ."
  • Depart To divide in order to share; to apportion. "And here is gold, and that full great plentee,
    That shall departed been among us three."
  • Depart 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."
  • Depart 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.""Ere thou from hence depart .""He which hath no stomach to this fight,
    Let him depart ."
  • Depart To leave; to depart from. "He departed this life.""Ere I depart his house."
  • Depart To part thoroughly; to dispart; to divide; to separate. "Till death departed them, this life they lead."
  • Depart To part; to divide; to separate.
  • Depart To pass away; to perish. "The glory is departed from Israel."
  • Depart To quit this world; to die. "Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace."
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• Interesting fact: Rudolph the Red-nosed reindeer was actually created as a promotional figure for Montgommery Wards department stores.
• • depart To divide; separate into parts; dispart.
  • depart To separate; sunder; dispart.
  • depart [At the Savoy Conference (1661) the use of the word depart in the marriage service was objected to by the Nonconformist divines. It was therefore changed (in 1662) to do part, us in the present prayer-book.]
  • depart To depart from; quit; leave (by ellipsis of the usual from).
  • depart To share; give or take a part or share.
  • depart To separate into parts; become divided.
  • depart To separate from a place or a person; go a different way; part.
  • depart To go or move away; withdraw, as from a place, a person, etc.
  • depart To deviate; go back or away, as from a course or principle of action, authoritative instructions, etc.; desist.
  • depart In law, to deviate in a subsequent pleading from the title or defense in the previous pleading.
  • depart To die; decease; leave this world.
  • n depart Division; separation, as of a compound substance into its elements: as, “water of depart,”
  • n depart The act of going away; departure.
  • n depart Death.
  • depart An abbreviation of department.
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• Interesting fact: The first suburban shopping mall was opened in 1922 by National Department Stores in Saint Louis.
• • v.i Depart de-pärt′ to go away: to quit or leave: to die:
  • v.t Depart (obs.) to separate, divide
  • v.i Depart de-pärt′ (obs.) to separate from one another
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  “In the great department store of life, baseball is the toy department.”
• John Morley

  

  “The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.”
• Walter Savage Landor

  

  “I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.”
• Hannah More

  

  “Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.”
• Bible

  

  “Whoever rewards evil for good, evil will not depart from their house.”
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  

  “Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.”

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