Bible Dictionaries
Departure

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) Removal from the present life; death; decease.

(2):

(n.) Deviation or abandonment, as from or of a rule or course of action, a plan, or a purpose.

(3):

(n.) The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another.

(4):

(n.) Separation or removal from a place; the act or process of departing or going away.

(5):

(n.) Division; separation; putting away.

(6):

(n.) The distance due east or west which a person or ship passes over in going along an oblique line.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Departure'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​d/departure.html. 1828.