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To DEPA'INT, v. a. [depeint , Fr.] To pidture ; to de- 
fcribe by colours ; to paint; to fltew by a painted refern- 
b la nee : 
lie. did unwilling worfhip to tlie faint 
That on his Ihield depainted lie did fee., Spcnfcr. 
To deferibe : 
Sucli ladies fair woukl I depaint 
In roundelay,, or fonnet quaint. Gay. 
DEPARCIEU'X (Antony), a French mathematician 
of eminence, born in 1703, at Clotet de CefFoux, in the 
diocefe of Ufez. He learned the elements of mathema¬ 
tics under a jefuit of Lyons, and then went to Paris, 
where he acquired the patronage of M. de Montcarville, 
profeffor in the royal college. He fupported himfelf by 
giving lectures, and conftru cling fun-dials upon an im¬ 
proved plan, and meridian lines.. One of the latter, which 
he drew at the Louvre for the duke de Nevers, obtained 
conlidcrable notice. His firft publication was A Treatife 
on Trigonometry, reft i I inear and fpherical, 1741, 4to. 
which was favourably received, and procured him a lent 
in the royal focietv of Montpellier. He next diffinguifil¬ 
ed himfelf in the branch of political arithmetic by his 
Effays on the Probabilities of the Duration of Human 
Life, 1746, 410. This was regarded as a work of great 
utility, as well in foreign countries as in France. It pro¬ 
cured him adrhiffion into the academy of fciences, in which 
he had the place of adjunct to the geometry clafs. He 
contributed various pieces to the memoirs of this fociety, 
all of which turn upon fome ufeful object. As he was 
diltinguiflied for his (kill in mechanics, he was much con- 
fulted by thofe who had works of this kind to perform. 
He planned the water-works of Crecy for madame de 
Pompadour; a very ingenious pump at the feat of M. de 
Machault; and a prels highly ufeful in the fnuff manu¬ 
factory, for the farmer-general. He deferved the grati¬ 
tude of the citizens of Paris for confulting their advan¬ 
tage by his Memoir on the Inundations of the Seine; 
and efpecially by his Memoirs on the Poflibility of bring¬ 
ing to Paris the Waters of the River of Yvette, reprint¬ 
ed with additions in 1777, 4to. Deparcieux was alfo 
member of the academies of Stockholm and Berlin, and 
cenfor-royal. He was a man of great limplicity and be- 
.nevolenCe, without ambition and intrigue. He died in 
September, 1768. 
To DEPA'RT, v. n. [ depart , Fr.] To go away from a 
place : witli from before the thing left.—When the peo¬ 
ple departed away, Sufannah went into her garden. SuJ'an. 
vii.—He faid unto him, go in peace ; lo he departed from 
him a little way. 2 Kings, v. 19.—They departed .quickly 
from the fepulchre, with fear and great joy, and did run 
to bring his difciples word. Mat. xxviii. 
And couldlt thou leave me, cruel, thus alone ? 
Not one kind kifs from a departing foil! 
No luok, no laft adieu ! Dryden. 
To defift from a practice.—He cleaved unto the fins of 
Jeroboam; he departed not therefrom. 2 Kings, in. 3.— 
To be loft ; to perifti.—The good departed away, and the 
evil abode (till. 2 Efd. iii.—To defert ; to revolt; to fall 
away ; to apoftatife.—In tranfgrefling and lying againft 
the Lord, and departing away from our God. IJ'aiah, hx. 
13.—To defift from a refolution or opinion.—His majefty 
prevailed not^with any of them to depart from the molt 
unreafonable of all their demands. Clarendon. —To die; to 
deceafe ; to leave the world.—As her foul was in depart¬ 
ing-, for (he.died.' Gen. iii. 5. 18.—Lord, now letteft thou 
thy fervant depart in peace, according to thy word. Luke, 
xxix.—To part.—Which we much rather would depart 
withal. Ska/tefpeare. —Faith, I can hardly depart with rea¬ 
dy money. Ben Jonfon. 
To DEPA'RT, v, a. To quit; to leave; to retire from. 
Not in ufe-. 
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You’ve had difpateh in private by the conful ; 
You are will’d by him this evening 
To depart Rome. Ben Jorfon, 
To DEPA'RT, v. a. \_partir, Fr. partior, Lat.] To di¬ 
vide ; to feparate ; to remove. 
DEPA'RT, J. [depart , Fr.] The a£t of going away 3 
now departure: 
I had in charge, at my depart from France, 
To marry princefs Margaret. Shakefpeare, 
Death : 
When your brave father breath’d his lateft gafp, 
Tidings, as fwiftly as the poll could run, 
Were brought me of your lofs and his depart. Shakefpeare. 
[Witli the ancient chemifts.] An operation fo named, be- 
caufe the particles of filver are departed or divided from 
gold, or other metal, when they were before melted to¬ 
gether in the fame mafs, and could not be feparated any 
other way. See flat. 4 Hen. VII.—The chemifts have a 
liquor called water of depart. Bacon. 
DEPA'RT, a town of France, in the department of 
the Lower Pyrenees, on the Gave, oppofite Orthes. 
DEPART'ER,yi One that refines metals by repa¬ 
ration. 
DEPART'MENT, f. \_dcparteincnt, Fr.] Separate al¬ 
lotment ; province or bufinefs afiigned to a particular 
perfon : a French term. —The Rorfian fleets, during their 
command at fea, had their feveral ftations and departments : 
the molt confiderable was the Alexandrian fleet, and the 
fecond was tHe African. Arbuthnot. —The counties or dif- 
tridts into which France has been divided fince the revo¬ 
lution ; for the names and number of which fee the ar¬ 
ticle France. 
DEPART'URE, f. A going away : 
What befides 
Of forrow,. and dejection, and defpair. 
Our frailty can fuftain, thy tidings bring ; 
Departure from this happy place. Milton. 
Death ; deceafe; the act of leaving the prefent ftate of 
exiftence.—Happy was their good prince in his timely 
departure, which barred him from the knowledge of his 
fon’s miferies. Sidney. —A forfaking; an abandoning: with 
from .—The fear of the Lord, and departure from evil, are 
phrales of like importance. Tillotfon. 
DEPART'URE, f. in law, is applied to a defendant, 
who firft pleading one thing in bar of an adtion, and being 
replied unto, in his-rejoinder, quits that and (hews ano¬ 
ther matter, contrary to, or not purfuing, his firft plea, 
which is called a departure from his plea : alfo where a 
plaintiff in his declaration fets forth one thing, and after 
the defendant hath pleaded, the plaintiff' in his replica¬ 
tion thews new matter different from his declaration, this 
is a departure. Ploiod. 7, 8. But if a plaintiff in his re¬ 
plication depart from his count, and the defendant takes 
iffue upon it; if it be found for the plaintiff', the defend¬ 
ant (hall take no advantage of that departure: though it 
would have been otherwise, if he had demurred upon it, 
Raym. 86. If a man plead a general agreement in bar, 
and in his rejoinder allege a fpecial one, this is a depart¬ 
ure in pleading: and if an attion is brought at common 
law, and the plaintiff by his replication would maintain 
it by virtue of a cuftom, &c. it hath been held a depart¬ 
ure. iNelf.Abr. 638. Where a matter is omitted at firft, 
it is a departure to ( lead it afterwards. If in covenant, 
the defendant pleads performance; and after rejoins that 
the plaintiff oufted him, it is a departure from his plea. 
Raym . 22. In debt upon bond for performance of cove¬ 
nants in a leafe, the defendant pleaded performance; and 
afterwards in liis rejoinder lei forth that fo much was 
paid in money, and fo much in taxes, &c. upon demur¬ 
rer, it was adjudged a departure from the plea ; becaufe 
he had pleaded performance, and afterwards fet forth 
ether-matter of.excufe, See. 1 Salk. 22s, 
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