'Depart' definitions:

Definition of 'depart'

From: WordNet
verb
Move away from a place into another direction; "Go away before I start to cry"; "The train departs at noon" [syn: go, go away, depart] [ant: come, come up]
verb
Be at variance with; be out of line with [syn: deviate, vary, diverge, depart] [ant: conform]
verb
Leave; "The family took off for Florida" [syn: depart, part, start, start out, set forth, set off, set out, take off]
verb
Go away or leave [syn: depart, take leave, quit] [ant: stay]
verb
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" [syn: leave, depart, pull up stakes]
verb
Wander from a direct or straight course [syn: sidetrack, depart, digress, straggle]

Definition of 'Depart'

From: GCIDE
  • Depart \De*part"\, v. t.
  • 1. To part thoroughly; to dispart; to divide; to separate. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • Till death departed them, this life they lead. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To divide in order to share; to apportion. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • And here is gold, and that full great plentee, That shall departed been among us three. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To leave; to depart from. "He departed this life." --Addison. "Ere I depart his house." --Shak. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Depart'

From: GCIDE
  • Depart \De*part"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Departed; p. pr. & vb. n. Departing.] [OE. departen to divide, part, depart, F. d['e]partir to divide, distribute, se d['e]partir to separate one's self, depart; pref. d['e]- (L. de) + partir to part, depart, fr. L. partire, partiri, to divide, fr. pars part. See Part.]
  • 1. To part; to divide; to separate. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • I will depart to mine own land. --Num. x. 30. [1913 Webster]
  • Ere thou from hence depart. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • He which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • If the plan of the convention be found to depart from republican principles. --Madison. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To pass away; to perish. [1913 Webster]
  • The glory is departed from Israel. --1 Sam. iv. 21. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. To quit this world; to die. [1913 Webster]
  • Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace. --Luke ii. 29. [1913 Webster]
  • To depart with, to resign; to part with. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Depart'

From: GCIDE
  • Depart \De*part"\, n. [Cf. F. d['e]part, fr. d['e]partir.]
  • 1. Division; separation, as of compound substances into their ingredients. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • The chymists have a liquor called water of depart. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. A going away; departure; hence, death. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • At my depart for France. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • Your loss and his depart. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'depart'

From: Moby Thesaurus

Words containing 'Depart'