Part 2949

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Depart</h1> <Xpage=392>

<hw>De*part"</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>d\'82part</ets>, fr. <ets>d\'82partir</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Division; separation, as of compound substances into their ingredients.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>The chymists have a liquor called water of <b>depart</b>. <i>Bacon.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A going away; departure; hence, death.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>At my <b>depart</b> for France. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Your loss and his <b>depart</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Departable</h1> <Xpage=392>

<hw>De*part"a*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Divisible.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Bacon.</i>

<h1>Departer</h1> <Xpage=392>

<hw>De*part"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>One who refines metals by separation.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>One who departs.</def>

<h1>Department</h1> <Xpage=392>

<hw>De*part"ment</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>d\'82partement</ets>, fr. <ets>d\'82partir</ets>. See <er>Depart</er>, <tt>v. i.</tt>]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Act of departing; departure.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Sudden <b>departments</b> from one extreme to another. <i>Wotton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A part, portion, or subdivision.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province.</def>

<blockquote>Superior to Pope in Pope's own peculiar <b>department</b> of literature. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Subdivision of business or official duty; especially, one of the principal divisions of executive government; <as>as, the treasury <ex>department</ex>; the war <i>department</i>; also, in a university, one of the divisions of instructions; <as>as, the medical <ex>department</ex></as>; the <ex>department</ex> of physics.</as></def>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>A territorial division; a district; esp., in France, one of the districts composed of several arrondissements into which the country is divided for governmental purposes; <as>as, the <ex>Department</ex> of the Loire</as>.</def>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>A military subdivision of a country; <as>as, the <ex>Department</ex> of the Potomac</as>.</def>

<h1>Departmental</h1> <Xpage=392>

<hw>De`part*men"tal</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Pertaining to a department or division.</def>

<i>Burke.</i>