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A registrar or secretary of the faculty in a department of a college, as in a medical, or theological, or scientific department. [U.S.]

Hence, to depart suddenly; to run away; -- generally used disparagingly. The fathers were ordered to decamp, and the house was once again converted into a tavern. Goldsmith.

Departure from a camp; a marching off.

Departure, especially departure from this life; death. His decease, which he should accomplish at Jerusalem. Luke ix. 31. And I, the whilst you mourn for his decease, Will with my mourning plaints your plaint increase. Spenser.

Removing; departing. Ash.

Departure; decrease; -- opposed to accesion. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

The department of knowledge relative to the care and culture of the people; sociology in its broadest sense; -- in library cataloguing.

To pasture; to feed; to graze; also, to use for pasture. [R.] Cattle, to graze and departure in his grounds. Blackstone. A right to cut wood upon or departure land. Washburn.

a wandering from the way; variation from the common way, from an established rule, etc.; departure, as from the right course or the path of duty.

Pertaining to, or having the character of, a digression; departing from the main purpose or subject. T. Warton.

Departing from the main subject; partaking of the nature of digression. Johnson.

Leave to depart; a dismissing. [Obs.] Barrow.

Sending away; dismissing to another jurisdiction; granting leave to depart. Letters dimissory (Eccl.), letters given by a bishop dismissing a person who is removing into another diocese, and recommending him for reception there. Hook.

f collecting and disbursing his revenues. Macaulay. Disbursing officer, an officer in any department of the public service who is charged with the duty of paying out public money.

To yield or give up; to depart. [Obs.] I dare not discede from my copy a tittle. Fuller.

Departure. [Obs.]

To depart; to quit the coast (that is, the side or border) of anything; to be separated. [Obs.] As far as heaven and earth discoasted lie. G. Fletcher. To discoast from the plain and simple way of speech. Barrow.

To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away. He dismissed the assembly. Acts xix. 41. Dismiss their cares when they dismiss their flock. Cowper. Though he soon dismissed himself from state affairs. Dryden.

The act dismissing or sending away; permission to leave; leave to depart; dismissal; as, the dismission of the grand jury.

An academical title, originally meaning a men so well versed in his department as to be qualified to teach it. Hence: One who has taken the highest degree conferred by a university or college, or has received a diploma of the highest degree; as, a doctor of divinity, of law, of medicine, of music, or of philosophy. Suc…