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rom before the place, person, or thing left, and for or to before the destination. I will depart to mine own land. Num. x. 30. Ere thou from hence depart. Milton. He which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart. Shak.

Divisible. [Obs.] Bacon.

One who departs.

Act of departing; departure. [Obs.] Sudden departments from one extreme to another. Wotton.

A store keeping a great variety of goods which are arranged in several departments, esp. one with dry goods as the principal stock.

Pertaining to a department or division. Burke.

Division; separation; putting away. [Obs.] No other remedy . . . but absolute departure. Milton.

To distribute wrongly. [Obs.] He misdeparteth riches temporal. Chaucer.

A subordinate department; a bureau. See the Note under Bureau.

A staff department of the United States army charged, under the supervision of the Chief of Staff, with the purchasing and issuing to the army of such supplies as make up the ration. It also supplies, for authorized sales, certain articles of food and other minor stores. It is commanded by any officer of the rank of b…

Incapable of being parted; inseparable. [Obs.] Chaucer. Wyclif.

A prefix in many words of Latin origin. It signifies from, away , separating, or departure, as in abduct, abstract, abscond. See A- (6).

Departure from the ordinary type; irregularity; monstrosity. "An abnormity . . . like a calf born with two heads." Mrs. Whitney.

o prepare the mind for the event; sudden; hasty; unceremonious. "The cause of your abrupt departure." Shak.

To depart clandestinely; to steal off and secrete one's self; -- used especially of persons who withdraw to avoid a legal process; as, an absconding debtor. That very homesickness which, in regular armies, drives so many recruits to abscond. Macaulay.

To hasten, as the occurence of an event; as, to accelerate our departure. Accelerated motion (Mech.), motion with a continually increasing velocity. -- Accelerating force, the force which causes accelerated motion. Nichol.

The department or officers having authority over naval affairs generally.

That department of physics which treats of the atmosphere.

A treatise on amphibious animals; the department of natural history which treats of the Amphibia.

Irregular; departing from common or established rules.