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Departure   /dɪpˈɑrtʃər/   Listen
noun
Departure  n.  
1.
Division; separation; putting away. (Obs.) "No other remedy... but absolute departure."
2.
Separation or removal from a place; the act or process of departing or going away. "Departure from this happy place."
3.
Removal from the present life; death; decease. "The time of my departure is at hand." "His timely departure... barred him from the knowledge of his son's miseries."
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."
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.
6.
(Nav. & Surv.) The distance due east or west which a person or ship passes over in going along an oblique line. Note: 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.
To take a departure (Nav. & Surv.), to ascertain, usually by taking bearings from a landmark, the position of a vessel at the beginning of a voyage as a point from which to begin her dead reckoning; as, the ship took her departure from Sandy Hook.
Synonyms: Death; demise; release. See Death.





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"Departure" Quotes from Famous Books



... new departure with the researches of M. Emanuel Cosquin in his Contes populaires de Lorraine (Paris, 1886, 2 tirage, 1890), undoubtedly the most important contribution to the scientific study of the folk-tale since the Grimms. M. Cosquin gives in the annotations to the eighty-four tales which he has ...
— Indian Fairy Tales • Collected by Joseph Jacobs
... attending fairs. In short, he became a Ribbonman, and consequently was obliged to attend their nightly meetings. Now it so happened that for a considerable time after the threatening notice had been posted on Vengeance's door, he received no annoyance, although the period allowed for his departure had been long past, and the purport of the paper uncomplied with. Whether this proceeded from an apprehension on the part of the Ribbonmen of receiving a warmer welcome than they might wish, or whether they deferred the execution of their threat until Vengeance might ...
— The Station; The Party Fight And Funeral; The Lough Derg Pilgrim • William Carleton
... our men graunted vnto them, vpon condition that they should pay a certaine summe of money, and that they should from thencefoorth abstaine from piracies vpon all the coasts of Italy and France. And so hauing dispatched their businesse, within a fewe moneths after their departure they returned home. ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of - The English Nation, Vol. 11 • Richard Hakluyt
... he had spent the evening up to eleven o'clock in a cafe. Ten persons had seen him, having remained there till his departure. ...
— Maupassant Original Short Stories (180), Complete • Guy de Maupassant
... rubbing and leaping and stamping, the whole party were soon restored to a serviceable condition, after which they set about active preparations for departure. ...
— The Wild Man of the West - A Tale of the Rocky Mountains • R.M. Ballantyne


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