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Departed   /dɪpˈɑrtəd/  /dɪpˈɑrtɪd/   Listen
verb
Depart  v. t.  
1.
To part thoroughly; to dispart; to divide; to separate. (Obs.) "Till death departed them, this life they lead."
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."
3.
To leave; to depart from. "He departed this life." "Ere I depart his house."


Depart  v. i.  (past & past part. departed; pres. part. departing)  
1.
To part; to divide; to separate. (Obs.)
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." "Ere thou from hence depart." "He which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart."
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."
4.
To pass away; to perish. "The glory is departed from Israel."
5.
To quit this world; to die. "Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace."
To depart with, to resign; to part with. (Obs.)


adjective
departed  adj.  
1.
Past; used of time; as, departed summers.
Synonyms: bygone, bypast, foregone, gone.
2.
Dead; as, our dear departed parents. (euphemistic)
Synonyms: asleep(predicate), at peace(predicate), at rest(predicate), cold, deceased, gone.


noun
departed  n.  Someone who is no longer alive; as, let us pray for the departed.
Synonyms: dead person, dead soul, deceased person, deceased, decedent.





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"Departed" Quotes from Famous Books



... these words, he again burst into tears, and the whole company of relatives set to work at once to pacify him. "She has already departed this life," they argued, "and tears are also of no avail, besides the pressing thing now is to consult as to what kind of arrangements are to ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book I • Cao Xueqin
... the forcible closing of a door, and all became still. After an hour he entered the duke's cabinet, because the silence troubled him. The old duke sat in his arm-chair, pale, and gazing with constant looks at the door through which the stranger had departed. He was reticent the whole day, and in the night following his valet heard him softly praying and weeping. On the next morning, August 27th, 1830, on entering the sleeping-room of his master, he found him dead and already ...
— Marie Antoinette And Her Son • Louise Muhlbach
... permission to read it; but he refused, telling me that the doctrines of the church all remained unrefuted. He wished me to go down to the patriarch Joseph on this business. So after a stay of four days from my arrival, I departed for Ain Warka according to my ...
— Fox's Book of Martyrs - Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant - Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs • John Fox
... paid a parting visit to the residence which he had preferred to every other. After his unsuccessful attempt to resume the sovereignty of France, he spent six days at Malmaison to muse over departed power and happiness, and then left the ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 • Various
... liking him, Elspeth, he has such winning ways," said Tommy, perhaps a little in the voice with which at funerals we refer to the departed. She loved his words, but she knew she had a surprise for him this time, and she tried ...
— Tommy and Grizel • J.M. Barrie


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