department 
States treasurer, register of the Treasury, commissioner 
of Internal revenue, OTIU deputy commissioner, cumuli- 
sioner of customs, controllt-T of the- currency, dejiiit\ i mi 
troHcr, ami t!ii. .tor of the mint. The department also 
has control of the itiireau of Engraving and Printing, a 
Bureau ut Statistic, the revenue marine, tile coast sur- 
vey, liylith-'ii.ses (through the Lighthouse Board), the life- 
Bavin^ serviec, the iu^peetioii of steanilwats, tin- erection 
of national buildings, etc. Department of War, the 
executive military division (if the I'nited States BOVI-I-II 
ment, under chance of the Secretary of War, having con- 
trol of all alfairs relating to the general management and 
administration of the army, under the supervision of the 
President as conimander-in-chief. Its principal officers are 
the adjutant-, inspector-, quartermaster-, paymaster-, com- 
missary-, and surgeon-general, and judge-advocate-gen- 
eral, chief medical purveyor, and chief of engineers. The 
department :ilsi> has control of tho Signal Service Bureau 
(Including the meteorological department), and the care 
of the national building and grounds at Washington. 
Medical department (inilit.), a non-combatant staff- 
corps of an army, which has charge of all Held and gen- 
eral hospitals, ami whose officers attend the sick and 
wounded, and are responsible for all hospital and medical 
stores. Ordnance department, a corps of officers in 
the United States army concerned with the inspection and 
fabrication of ordnance and ordnance stores, the inspec- 
tion and repair of arms, and the manufacture of military 
equipments of all kinds to l>e supplied to the regular army, 
the militia of the several States and Territories, and to the 
marine corps. Its officers determine all the details of gun 
construction for the War Department. Post-offlce De- 
partment, of the United States, a division of the govern- 
ment, presided over by the Postmaster-General, whose duty 
it is to conduct the postal service, to establish and discon- 
tinue post-offices, to grant mail contracts, to appoint many 
minor officials, and to superintend generally the business 
of the department, and execute all laws relating to the 
postal service. There are three assistant postmasters- 
Kcneral. 
departmental (de'-part-men'tal), a. [= F. de- 
parteme iital ; as department -t- -al.] 1. Of or 
pertaining to a department or division, as of a 
country. , < 
The game played by the Revolutionists In 1789 with 
respect to the French guards of the unhappy king was 
now played against the departmental guards. 
Burke, Rev. in France. 
2. Of or pertaining to a department or branch, 
as of a government, a manufacturing or busi- 
ness undertaking or concern, public office, and 
the like. 
The petty details of departmental business. 
Sir If. S. Creasy, Hist. Turks, II. v. 
departmentally (de-part-men'tal-i), adv. By 
or with reference to departments; as regards 
departments. 
departsont, n. See departison. 
departure (de-par'tur), n. [< OF. departeure, 
ilt'n/iiirti itre, < di'parier, depart: see depart and 
-im.'] If. The act of separating or parting; 
separation. 
No other remedy . . . but absolute departure. Milton. 
2. The act of going away; a moving from a 
place : as, his departure from home. 
Fyndynge no sure conduyte, ... he retourned to Jheru- 
salem, and aryued there byfore our departure from thens. 
Sir R. Guulforde, Pylgrymage, p. 46. 
Departure from this happy place. Milton, P. L., xi. 303. 
3. The act of leaving the present life ; decease ; 
death. 
I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my de- 
partun: is at hand. 2 Tim. fv. 6. 
Sir, I thank you : 
If noble spirits after their departure 
Can know, and wish, certain his soul gives thanks too. 
Fletcher, Wife for a Month, v. 3. 
It is not the mere absence of man, but the sense of his 
departure, that makes a profound loneliness. 
Lowell, Fireside Travels, p. 286. 
4. Deviation or divergence, as from a standard, 
rule, or plan; a turning away, as from a pur- 
pose or course of action. 
Any departure from a national standard. Prescott. 
The fear of the Lord and departure from evil are phrases 
of like importance. Tatotson. 
It is well known that the succession of classes of Verte- 
brates is measured first by their adaptation to aeration in 
water, and then by their successive departures from this 
type in connection with the faculty of breathing air. 
K. D. Cope, Origin of the Fittest, p. 196. 
6. In navigation : (a) The distance in nautical 
miles made good by a ship due east or due 
west: in the former case it is called easting, 
and in the latter, irrnting. When the two places 
are on the same parallel, the departure is the 
same as the distance sailed. (6) Tho bearing 
or position of an object from which a vessel 
commences her dead-reckoning. 6. In lair. 
the abandonment of one's former ground, in 
pleading or process, which is implied by inter- 
posing a pleading stating as the grounds of 
action or dct'i-usc matter inconsistent with or 
substantially different from that originally in- 
dicated; the change involved or attempted 
after beginning an action or a defense on one 
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ground, in ciiilravoriiig to continue it on one 
substantially different, incongruity between 
ecssivc eauset of aetJOB OTdefeilMI i" "ii- alnl til.- -anie 
pleading, when ilisallmw-,1. Is termed mujoindcr. Angle 
of departure. See muii,-*. Departure of an Imagi- 
nary quantity, its argument, see iir : iiinifiit, n. New 
departure, a IMIIL'I ,,i purpose or method ; a new course 
of procedure : us, this constitutes a new departure in the 
photographic art. 
We candidly admit that In these remarkable works he 
takes a new departure. Athenaeum, No. 3067, p. 186. 
To take a departure, to determine the place of a ship 
in starting on a voyage. This is done by referring to some 
other position of known latitude and longitude. - Syn. 2. 
Withdrawal, exit, retirement, removal, 
depas (dep'as), n. [Gr. WTTOC.] In Gr. archtt-ol.. 
a drinking-cup or -bowl. 
Depas amphurypellon, a 
twofold or double cup; a cup 
having two handles or ears, or 
one divided into two parts by a 
partition: sometimes interpret- 
ed as a vessel consisting of two 
bowls joined by their bottoms, 
so that either can serve as a 
foot for the other. It is gener- 
ally agreed that the vessel so 
called by Homer was a simple 
two-handled cup of the same 
class as that shown In the illus- 
tration. 
depascentt (de-pas'ent), 
a. [< L. aepascen(t-)s, 
*- . , ,* T l j. Depas Aniphlkypellon.fduml 
ppr. of depascere (> It. rfi- in the -Bacnd city- at His. 
pascere), also deponent ' 
depaaci, feed upon, con- 
sume, < de- + pasa, feed : see pasture, pastor.] 
Feeding. 
depasture (df-pas'tur), r. ; pret. and pp. de- 
pastured, ppr. depasturing. [< de- + pasture; 
cf. depascent.] I. trans. If. To eat up; con- 
sume; strip. 
They keep their cattle, and live themselves, in bodies 
pasturing upon the mountains, and removing still to fresh 
land, as they have depastured the former. 
Sptnser, State of Ireland. 
2. To pasture ; graze. 
If 40 sheep yield 80 Ibs. of wool, and are depastured In 
one parish for a whole year, the parson shall have 8 Ibs. 
Ayli/e, Parergon. 
Visions of countless flocks to be depastured, and wide 
estates to be carved out of the bountiful land. 
Contemporary Rev., I. III. 7. 
II. intrans. To feed or pasture ; graze. 
If a man takes in a horse, or other cattle, to graze and 
drixuture in his grounds, which the law calls agistment. 
Blackttone, Com. 
After a given day the temporary fences were removed, 
and the cattle of all the clansmen were allowed to depot- 
turf on the stubble. 
W. E. Hearn, Aryan Household, p. 225. 
depatriate (de-pa'tri-at), v. t. or i. ; pret. and 
pp. depatriate'd, ppr. depatriating. [< L. de, 
from, + patria, one's country ; cf. equiv. ML. 
dispatriare and E. expatriate.} To leave one's 
country ; go into exile ; exile or expatriate 
one's self. [Rare.] 
A subject born in any state 
May, if he please, depatriate. 
Maurn, Dean and Squire. 
depauperate (de-pa'per-at), v. t. ; pret. and pp. 
depauperated, ppr. depauperating. [< ML. de- 
/ HI n i K rut it.-: pp. of depauperare (> OF. depau- 
perer = Sp. depauperar = It. depauperare), 
make poor, < L. de- + pauperare, make poor, < 
pauper, poor: see pauper and poor.'] To make 
poor; impoverish ; deprive of fertility or rich- 
ness : as, to depauperate the soil. 
Abjection and humility of mind, which depauperate! 
the spirit, making it less worldly and more spiritual. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1836X I. 192. 
Great evacuations, which carry off the nutritious hu- 
mours, depauperate the blood. Arbuthnot, Aliments. 
depauperate (de-pa'per-at), a. [< ML. depau- 
peratus, pp. : see the verb.] Impoverished ; 
made poor. Specifically, In hot. , imperfectly developed ; 
diminutive from want of nourishment or other nnfavor- 
able conditions. 
depauperated (de-pa'per-a-ted), p. a. Same 
as depauperate. 
That struggle for existence against advene external con- 
ditions . . . will give chiefly depauperated and degraded 
forms. Ouirfuii, Origin of World, p. 228. 
depauperization (de-pa'per-i-za'shon), n. [< 
depauperize + -ation.~\ The act of depauperiz- 
ing ; the state of being or becoming depauper- 
ate. 
After such extreme retrogression, the depauperization 
of certain parts and organs observable in the Anomoura 
is easily to be understood and admitted. 
Encyc. Brit., VI. 656. 
depauperize (de-pa'per-iz), v. t. ; pret. and pp. 
ilrpiiupcri^ed, ppr. depauperizing. [< de- priv. + 
pauperize.] To emancipate from a condition 
depend 
of poverty or pauperism ; free from paupers or 
pauperism. 
our efforts at depauperizing the children of paupers 
would be more successful If the process were not carried 
on in a lump. ftilinijui-yh Rev. 
depeacht (df-pech'), v. t. [< OF. depeackier, 
FT dtpfcher, despatch, discharge: see aesjtatch, 
the present form of the verb. For the form, cf . 
impeach,] To despatch ; discharge. 
They shalbe first and forthwith heard, as soon as the 
party which they slial sind la-fore our lustlces shalbe de- 
peached, llakluvt't V'uyagrt, I. 267. 
depectiblet (de-pek'ti-bl), a. [< L. depect-ere, 
comb off (< de, off, + pectere, comb), + E. -iWe.j 
Pliant; extensible; diffusible. 
It may be also that some bodies ... are of a more de- 
jirctMf nature than oil, ... for a small quantity of saf- 
fron will tinct more than a very great quantity of brasil 
or wine. Boron, Nat. Hist 
depeculationt (de-pek-u-la'shon), n. [< L. de- 
pfciilatiia, pp. of aej>eculari, embezzle, < de- + 
peculari, embezzle public money: see peculate.] 
A robbing or embezzling. 
Also robbery and depeculatiun of the public treasure or 
revenues Is a greater crime than the robbing or defraud- 
ing of a private man. Hobbet, Commonwealth, xxvii. 
depeinctt, depeintt, ' ' See depaint. 
depelt, f. t. [< L. depellere, drive away, < de, 
away, + pellerc, drive. Cf. dispel and deputes.] 
To drive away ; remove ; dispel. 
Because through hunger the faults of the stomacke 
which haue beene taken eyther by much drinking or sur- 
fetting, or by any other nieanes, may be deprlled and re- 
moued. Babeei Batik (E. E. T. S.), p. 258. 
depellert, One who or that which removes 
or dispels. 
The very thought of her is mischief's bar, 
Depeller of misdeeds. 
Middleton, Solomon Paraphrased, vL 
depend (de-pend'), v. i. [< ME. dependen, < OF. 
dependre, V. d^petidre = Sp. Pg. depender = It. 
dipendere, dependere, < L. dependere, hang down, 
hang upon, depend, < de, down, + pendere, 
hang : see pendant, pendent, and cf. append, 
impend, perpend, susj>end.] 1. To hang; be 
sustained by being fastened or attached to 
something above : used absolutely or followed 
by from. 
Th' heauy Water, pronest to descend, 
Twlxt Air and Earth is able to depend. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas s Weeks, L 7. 
From the frozen beard 
Long Icicles depend. Dryden. 
2. To be a conditional effect or result ; be con- 
tingent or conditioned. The verb Is followed by on 
or upon governing a designation of a condition or cause 
without which the effect or result, the subject of the verb, 
cannot exist or will not be produced : as, the price asked 
for a commodity depends upon the amount on hand or the 
amount that can profitably be supplied at that price, and 
also depends upon the supposed amount that can be sold at 
that price. 
Our lives depend upon their gentle pities. 
Fletcher (and another), Sea Voyage, III. 1. 
The fate of Christendom depended on the temper in 
which he [James II. ) might then flnd the Commons. 
Macaitlay, Hist. Eng., vl. 
Our happiness deptndt little on political institutions, 
and much on the temper and regulation of our own minds. 
Macaulay. 
Success in battle does not depend wholly on relative 
numbers or relative strengths. 
H. Spencer, Prln. of Sociol., { 296. 
3. To be in suspense ; be undetermined : only 
in the present participle : as, the suit is still de- 
pending in court. See pending. 
Matters of greatest moment were depending. 
Milton, Eikonoklastes, v. 
He informed me that . . . [the law-suit] had been de- 
pending for several years. 
Gottl*mith, Citizen of the World, xcviU. 
While his cause was dependimj, the people took arms 
to defend him against the signori. 
J. Adams, Works, V. 21. 
4. To rely; rest in full confidence or belief: 
with OH or upon : as, you may depend upon the 
accuracy of the report. 
First, then, a woman will or won't defend on 't; 
If she will do 't, she will ; and there's an end on t. 
A. Hill, Zara, Epil. 
Tills, you may depend on it, is the whole truth of the 
matter. Sheridan, School tor Scandal, iv. 3. 
5. To rely for that which is necessary or de- 
sired; rest conditionally or in subordination; 
be dependent : with on or upon : as, children 
depend upon their parents; to depend upon a 
foreign market for supplies ; we depend on the 
newspapers for intelligence. 
Tis foolish to depend on others' mercy. 
Fletcher, Beggars' Bush, iv. L 
6*. To rest in suspense ; wait expectantly. 
