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Entry 10 senses · 3 variants Webster, 1913

Depart

/dĭ-pärt'/ · De·part · IPA /dɪˈpɑɹt/
01 v. i. To part; to divide; to separate.
imp. & p. p. Departed; p. pr. & vb. n. Departing
  1. 1.
    To part; to divide; to separate.[Obs.]
  2. 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. 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. 4.
    To pass away; to perish.
    “The glory is departed from Israel.” — 1 Sam. iv. 21.
  5. 5.
    To quit this world; to die.
    “Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace.” — Luke ii. 29.
Phrases & compounds
To depart with — to resign; to part with.
02 v. t. To part thoroughly; to dispart; to divide; to separate.
  1. 1.
    To part thoroughly; to dispart; to divide; to separate.[Obs.]
    “Till death departed them, this life they lead.” — Chaucer.
  2. 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. 3.
    To leave; to depart from.
03 n. Division; separation, as of compound substances into their ingredients.
  1. 1.
    Division; separation, as of compound substances into their ingredients.[Obs.]
    “The chymists have a liquor called water of depart.” — Bacon.
  2. 2.
    A going away; departure; hence, death.[Obs.]
    “At my depart for France.” — Shak.
    “Your loss and his depart.” — Shak.