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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

... claimed, when the British merchants composing what was called the Plymouth Company, took the alarm, and presented a petition to James I., remonstrating against such proceedings. The British government promptly sent an ambassador to Holland to urge the States-General to prohibit the departure of the fleet, and to forbid the establishment of a Dutch colony in those regions. The diplomacy which ensued led to no ...

— Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam • John S. C. Abbott

... have driven Dr. Hardy and me to Kenemish on January 3d, but as there was a stiff wind blowing and the thermometer registered 40 degrees below zero, we postponed our departure until the following day. The morning was clear, and the temperature was 34 below. The dogs, with a great howling and jumping, had hardly settled down to the slow trot which with only fair travelling is their habitual gait, when we observed that the sky was clouding, and in an incredibly short ...

— The Lure of the Labrador Wild • Dillon Wallace

... beside our study fire that winter night. But on our departure she came down from her half widowed room to sit beside it. It was the same hearth she had kindled in other days "in expectation of a guest." As she entered the room, her eye fell upon the note which I had left lying in my chair. A glance at it revealed to her Angus' name. It was soon ...

— St. Cuthbert's • Robert E. Knowles

... Not before your mother comes back from marketing?" for she had seen Mrs. Pinkney's departure a few ...

— The Corner House Girls Growing Up - What Happened First, What Came Next. And How It Ended • Grace Brooks Hill

... he is a little animated by the thought of the cheerful Christmas time, which, in our country of Provence, is like a grand bonfire of joy lighted in the midst of winter; by remembrance of the departure for Mass at midnight; the church bedecked and luminous; the dark streets of the village full of people; then the long watch around the table; the three traditional flambeaux; the ceremony of the Yule-log; then the grand promenade ...

— In the Yule-Log Glow, Book II - Christmas Tales from 'Round the World • Various

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