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Webster 1913 Edition
Departure
1.
Division; separation; putting away.
[Obs.]
No other remedy . . . but absolute
departure
. Milton.
2.
Separation or removal from a place; the act or process of departing or going away.
Departure
from this happy place. Milton.
3.
Removal from the present life; death; decease.
The time of my
departure
is at hand. 2 Tim. iv. 6.
His timely
departure
. . . barred him from the knowledge of his son’s miseries. Sir P. Sidney.
4.
Deviation or abandonment, as from or of a rule or course of action, a plan, or a purpose.
Any
departure
from a national standard. Prescott.
5.
(Law)
The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another.
Bouvier.
6.
(Nav. & Surv.)
The distance due east or west which a person or ship passes over in going along an oblique line.
☞ Since the meridians sensibly converge, the departure in navigation is not measured from the beginning nor from the end of the ship's course, but is regarded as the total easting or westing made by the ship or person as he travels over the course.
Syn. – Death; demise; release. See
Death
. Webster 1828 Edition
Departure
DEPARTURE
, n.1.
The act of going away; a moving from or leaving a place; as a departure from London.2.
Death; decease; removal from the present life.The time of my departure is at hand. 2 Tim. 4.
3.
A forsaking; abandonment; as a departure from evil.4.
A desisting; as a departure from a purpose.5.
Ruin; destruction. Ezek. 26.6.
A deviation from the title or defense in pleading.7.
In navigation, the distance of two places on the same parallel, counted in miles of the equator.