depaint 
Thus [I] l>ut slightly shadow out your sins, 
But if they were depainted out for life, 
Alas, we both had wounds enough to heal ! 
Greene, James IV., v. 
Can breath depaint my unconceivcd thoughts ? 
Marston, Antonio and Mellida, I., v. 1. 
8. To mark with or as with color; stain. 
Silver drops her vermeil cheeks depaint. Fairfaix. 
[Rare or obsolete in all uses.] 
depaintert (de-pan'ter), n. A painter, 
depardieuxt, / terj. [OF. : de, of ; par, by ; dieu, 
dieux, God : &eepardieu,i>arde.~\ InGod'sname; 
verily; certainly. 
Depardieux, I assente. 
Chaucer, Troilus, ii. 1058. 
deparochiatet (de-pa-ro'ki-at), v. i. [< L. de, 
away, + parochia, parish (see parish), + -ate 2 .'] 
To leave or desert a parish. Duties. 
The culture of our lands will sustain an infinite injury 
if such a number of peasants were to deparochiate. 
Foote, The Orators, i. 
depart (de-part'), v. [< ME. departen, deperten, 
< OF. departir, depertir, deppartir, also despar- 
tir, F. departir, divide, part, separate, refl. de- 
part, go away, = Pr. departir = Sp. Pg. depar- 
tir, also despai'tir = It. departire, dipartire, also 
spartire, < L. dispurtire, divide, separate, dis- 
tribute, < dis-, apart, + partire, divide, sepa- 
rate, part, < par(t-)s, a part : see part. Cf. dis- 
part, which is a doublet of depart. The Rom. 
forms in de- are variants of the orig. forms in 
dis-, des-, after L. de, away.] I. trans. If. To 
divide ; separate into parts ; dispart. 
This werke I departe and dele in seuen bookes. 
Trevisa, tr. of Higden's Polychroniipn, I. 27. 
Seye to my brother that he departs with me the eritage. 
\Yyclif, Luke xii. 13. 
Amonge your Freinds depart your Goods, but not your 
Conscience. 
Booke of Precedence (E. E. T. S., extra ser.), i. 73. 
2f. To separate ; sunder ; dispart. 
The Rede see . . . departeth the south side of Inde from 
Ethiopia. Trecisa, tr. of Higden's Polychronicon, II. 63. 
He hastily did draw 
To weet the cause of so uncomely fray, 
And to depart them, if so be he may. 
Spe-nser, F. Q., VI. ii. 4. 
The Chetham Library possesses a fourteenth century MS. 
which contains the Marriage Service in the old "swing- 
ing" form. Here it reads, "IN [the head of a man com- 
bined with the initial] take the N [the head here being 
that of a woman] to my wedded wyyf ... til deth us de- 
paarte." N. and Q., 7th ser., III. 315. 
I N. take the N. to my wedded wyf to have and to holde 
fro this day forwarde for better: for wors: for richere: 
for poorer : in sykenesse and in hele : tyl dethe us departe, 
if holy chyrche it woll ordeyne, and therto I plight the 
my trouthe. 
Marriaye Service, 1552 (Procter's Hist. Book of Common 
[Prayer, p. 409). 
[At the Savoy Conference (1661) the use of the word de- 
part in the marriage service was objected to by the Non- 
conformist divines. It was therefore changed (in 1662) 
to do part, as in the present prayer-book.] 
3. To depart from ; quit ; leave (by ellipsis of 
the usual from). 
The Caraibes forbad the Women and Children to de- 
part their houses, but to attend diligently to singing. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 845. 
This answer not pleasing the King, an edict was pres- 
ently issu'd forth, that Godwin and his Sons within five 
days depart the Land. Hilton, Hist. Eng., vi. 
He departed this life at his house in the country, after 
a few weeks' sickness. Addison, Death of Sir Roger. 
II. intrans. If. To share; give or take a part 
or share. 
I shall also in wurchippe the avaunce, 
And largely departe with the also. 
Genei-ydei (E. E. T. 8.), 1. 3418. 
Be content to departe to a man wylling to learne suche 
thinges as thou knowest. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 107. 
2f. To separate into parts ; become divided. 
Lityll above Fferare the Poo departeth in to two parts 
The oon goth to Fferare, And so in too the see, And the 
other parte to Padow. 
Torkington, Diarie of Eng. Travel!, p. 6. 
3f. To separate from a place or a person ; go 
a different way ; part. 
Here's my hand, my name's Arthur-a-Bland, 
We two will never depart. 
Robin Hood and the Tanner (Child's Ballads, V. 228). 
4. To go or move away ; withdraw, as from a 
place, a person, etc. 
The kyng knewe wele ther was non other way, 
They must departe, and that was all his thought. 
Oenerydes (E. E. T. S.), 1. 207. 
And you shall be married at this same time, 
Before we depart away. 
Robin Hood and Allin A Dale (Child's Ballads, V. 282). 
Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire. 
. Mat. xxv. 41. 
He which hath no stomach to this flght 
Let him depart. Shak., Hen. V., iv. 3. 
1540 
5. To deviate ; go back or away, as from n 
course or principle of action, authoritative in- 
structions, etc. ; desist. 
He cleaved unto the sins of Jeroboam, ... he departed 
not therefrom. 2 Ki. iii. 3. 
Depart from evil, and do good. Ps. xxxiv. 14. 
6. In law, to deviate in a subsequent pleading 
from the title or defense in the previous plead- 
ing. 7. To die; decease; leave this world. 
[Biblical and poetic.] 
Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, ac- 
cording to thy word. Luke ii. 29. 
To depart witht, to part with ; give up ; yield ; resign. 
To a friend in want, he will not depart with the weight 
of a soldered groat. B. Jonson, Cynthia's Kevels, ii. 1. 
We must 
Receive him like ourself, and not depart imth 
One piece of ceremony. Magsinger, Renegado, i. 2. 
Where I may have more money, I can depart imth the 
more land. Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 415. 
departt (de-part'), n. [< OF. depart, F. depart; 
from the verb.] 1. Division; separation, as 
of a compound substance into its elements : as, 
"water of depart," Hacon. 2. The act of going 
away; departure. 
Friends, fare you well ; keep secret my depart. 
Greene, James IV., iii. 
I had in charge at my depart for France . . . 
To marry princess Margaret. 
Shak., 2 Hen. VI., i. i. 
Hence 3. Death. 
departablet (de-par'ta-bl), a. [< ME. depart- 
able, < OF. departable, < departir, separate, 
part: see depart and -able."] 1. That may be 
divided into parts; divisible. 
The kingdom shall go to the issue female ; it shall not 
be departable amongst daughters. 
Bacon, Case of the Postmaster. 
2. That maybe separated; separable; distin- 
guishable. 
Abraham seith that he seigh [saw] holy the Trinite, 
Thre person es in parcelles, departable fro other, 
And alle thre but o [one] god. 
Piers Plowman (B), xvii. 26. 
departed (de-par'ted), p. a. Gone; vanished; 
dead. 
To pray unto saints de-parted I am not taught. 
Latimer, 1st Sermon bef. Edw. VI., 1549. 
His leave he took, and home he went ; 
His wife departed lay. 
The Seven Champions of Christendom (Child's Ballads, 
[I. 85). 
The departed, the deceased (person or persons) ; those 
who have departed from the world, or one of them. 
Read the names of those buried a couple of centuries 
ago. . . . What a pitiful attempt to keep the world mind- 
ful of the departed ! 
C. D. Warner, Their Pilgrimage, p. 153. 
departer (de-par'ter), n. [< ME. departer; < 
depart + -t-i.] If. One who divides ; a distrib- 
uter or apportioner. 
And oon of the puple seide to him, Maister, seye to my 
brother that he departe with me the eritage. And he 
seyde to him, Man, who ordeyned me a domesman or a 
departer on you? Wyclif, Luke xii. 13, 14. 
2. One who refines metals by separation. 3t. 
In old law. See the extract. 
Departer is a word properly used of him that, first 
pleading one thing in barre of an action, and being replied 
thereunto, doth in his rejoinder show another matter 
contrary to his first plea. Ninsheu. 
departing (de-par'ting), . [< ME. departynge; 
verbal n. of depart, v.] If. Division; distribu- 
tion; expenditure. 
Lothest departyng where is grettest richesse. 
Lydgate, Minor Poems, p. 77. 
2t. Separation; parting. 
Take ye hym this ryng, 
He gave it me atte our last departeng. 
Generydes (E. E. T. S.), 1. 362. 
3. Departure; leave-taking. 
By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the 
departing of the children of Israel. Heb. xi. 22. 
One there is 
... to hold through woe and bliss 
XI y soul from its departing. 
William Morri-s, Earthly Paradise, II. 282. 
departisont, [ME., also departson; < OF. 
departison, vernacular form of *departition : see 
<lepartition.~] Departure. 
At ther departson had thay gret dolour. 
Rom. ofPartenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 104. 
departitiont (de-par-tish'pn), n. [< ME. depar- 
tmon,<OF. 'departition, vernacularly departison 
(see departison), < L. dispertitio(n-). a division, 
destruction, < dispartire, dispertire, divide, sepa- 
rate : see depart, and cf . departison.'] Division ; 
distribution; partition. 
Peraventure thel seke departysion of ther heritage. 
Political Poems, etc. (ed. Furnlvall), p. 33. 
department 
departizanize (de-par'ti-zan-lz), r. t. ; pret. and 
pp. dej/artizaiiized, ppr. departizanizing. [< de- 
priv. + partisan + -izc.~] To free from parti- 
san influence and control ; render uon-partizan. 
[Rare.] 
To departizanize the public service. 
The American, IX. 198. 
department (de-piirt'ment), . [= D. G. Dan. 
Sw. departement, < OF." departement, depparte- 
ment, despartement, F. departement = Pr. departi- 
tnent, departement = OSp. despartimiento, Sp. de- 
parlimiento = Pg. departimento, a division (also 
in technical senses 2, 3, Sp. Pg. departamento, 
after F.), = It. dipartimento, < ML. as if "dis- 
partimentum, < L. dispartire, dispertire, depart, 
divide: see depart and -ment.~] 1. A separate 
part or division of a complex whole ; a distinct 
branch or province ; a subdivision, as of a class 
or group of activities, organizations, or the 
like : as, the various departments of life, know- 
ledge, science, business, etc. ; the departments 
of an army or a factory. 
Each [Dante and Milton] in his own department is in- 
comparable. Macaulay, Milton. 
A handsome plate of ground glass in one door directs you 
"To the Counting House," another to "The Bottle Depart- 
ment," a third to "The Wholesale Department." Dickens. 
2. A division of official duties or functions ; a 
branch of government ; a distinct part of a gov- 
ernmental organization: as, the legislative, ex- 
ecutive, and judicial departments; the Depart- 
men t of State, of the Treasury, etc. See phrases 
below. The heads of the principal departments of the 
United States government are members of the President's 
cabinet. Abbreviated dept. 
3. A division of territory ; one of the provinces 
or principal districts into which some countries 
are divided for governmental or other purposes, 
such as the departments of France and the mili- 
tary administrative departments of the United 
States: as, the department of Saone-et-Loire in 
France ; the departmen t of the Platte. 
The deputies of the department choose their deputies to 
the national assembly. Burke, Rev. in France. 
4f. A going away; departure. 
The separation, department, and absenceof the soul from 
the body. Barrow, Works, II. 382. 
Those sudden departments from one extream to another. 
Sir H. Wotton, Reliquire, p. 61. 
Department of Agriculture, an executive department 
of the United States government, the duties of which are 
to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United 
States useful information on subjects connected with agri- 
culture, and to procure, propagate, and distribute among 
them new and valuable seeds and plants. Its chief is the 
Secretary of Agriculture, and under his direction are a stat- 
istician, an entomologist, a botanist, a chemist, a micros 
copist, and the ornithological and other divisions. De- 
partment Of Justice, in the United States, a department 
under the direction of the Attorney-General, who is re- 
quired to give his advice and opinion on questions of law 
whenever requested by the President or by the head of any 
executive department. He exercises general superinten- 
dence and direction over the district attorneys and mar- 
shals of all the districts in the United States and Terri- 
tories, and appears in person or by regular or special as- 
sistants in all cases where the United States is a party. In 
this department are also a solicitor-general and two as- 
sistant attorneys-general. Department of Labor, an 
executive department of the United States government, 
under the charge of the Commissioner of Labor. See com- 
missioner. Department of State, an executive division 
of the United States government, presided over by the 
Secretary of State, who ranks as first in importance among 
the cabinet officers. He is the authorized organ of com- 
munication for the government in all its relations with 
foreign powers. He conducts all negotiations, and di- 
rects the correspondence with all diplomatic and consular 
agents of the government accredited to other countries. 
In this department are also an assistant secretary and a 
second and third assistant secretaries. Department of 
the Interior, a division of the government of the Unit- 
ed States, under charge of the Secretary of the Interior, 
which has jurisdiction of various branches of internal ad- 
ministration specifically assigned to it. Its principal di- 
visions are the General Land Office, Patent Office, Pension 
Office, Bureaus of Indian Affairs and of Education, the 
decennial Census Bureau when in existence, the national 
geological survey, government printing and publication, 
etc. Besides the heads of these divisions, there are in 
the department a commissioner of labor and a commis- 
sioner of railroads, and several officers in charge of minor 
matters. Department Of the Navy, an executive divi- 
sion of the United States government, at the head of which 
is the Secretary of the Navy, charged with the control and 
administration of affairs connected with the navy and 
navigation. Its principal functions are distributed among 
the Bureaus of Navigation, Ordnance, Equipment and Re- 
cruiting, Yards and Docks, Medicine and Surgery, Provi- 
sions and Clothing, Steam Engineering, and Construction 
and Repair. Besides the matters indicated by the titles 
of these bureaus, the department has the control of the 
Naval Observatory at Washington, the Nautical Almanac, 
the Hydrography Office, etc. Department of the Trea- 
sury, the division of the United States government having 
charge of all matters concerning the public revenues and 
disbursements, besides a number of others not directly re- 
lated to finance. Its chief is the Secretary of the Treasury, 
and the principal financial officers under him arc two as- 
sistant secretaries, two controllers, six auditors, the United 
