Emily Dickinson Lexicon

DE-PART'URE, n.

1. The act of going away; a moving from or leaving a place; as, a departure from London.
2. Death; decease; removal from the present life. The time of my departure is at hand. – 2 Tim. iv.
3. A forsaking; abandonment; as, a departure from evil.
4. A desisting; as, a departure from a purpose.
5. Ruin; destruction. – Ezek. xxvi.
6. A deviation from the title or defense in pleading. – Blackstone.
7. In navigation, the distance of two places on the same parallel, counted in miles of the equator. – Mar. Dict.