Word Meanings - DEPARTURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another. Bouvier. (more info) 1. Division; separation; putting away. No other remedy . . . but absolute departure. Milton.

Additional info about word: DEPARTURE

The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another. Bouvier. (more info) 1. Division; separation; putting away. No other remedy . . . but absolute departure. Milton. 2. Separation or removal from a place; the act or process of departing or going away. Departure from this happy place. Milton. 3. Removal from the present life; death; decease. The time of my departure is at hand. 2 Tim. iv. 6. His timely departure . . . barred him from the knowledge of his son's miseries. Sir P. Sidney. 4. Deviation or abandonment, as from or of a rule or course of action, a plan, or a purpose. Any departure from a national standard. Prescott.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DEPARTURE)

• Absence
• Want
• departure
• Inattention
• nonexistence
• failure
• separation
• lack
• nonappearance
• distraction
• Death
• Departure
• demise
• decease
• dissolution
• mortality
• fall
• termination
• cessation
• expiration
• release
• exit
• Egress
• Exit
• sally
• outlet
• Flight
• Volitation
• escape
• evasion
• disappearance
• flying
• stampede
• soaring
• begin
• fleeing
• exodus
• Retirement
• Solitude
• privacy
• seclusion
• recess
• concavity
• retreat

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DEPARTURE)

• Bind
• constrain
• confine
• shackle
• fetter
• yoke

Related words: (words related to DEPARTURE)

• RECESS
  A sinus. (more info) 1. A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides. Every degree of ignorance being so far a recess and degradation from rationality. South. My recess hath given them confidence that I may be
• DEATHLIKE
  1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak.
• CONFINER
  One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
• DEATHLY
  Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.
• RELEASE
  To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
• ABSENCE
  1. A state of being absent or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; -- opposed to presence. Not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence. Phil. ii. 12. 2. Want; destitution; withdrawal. "In the absence of conventional law."
• NONEXISTENCE
  1. Absence of existence; the negation of being; nonentity. A. Baxter. 2. A thing that has no existence. Sir T. Browne.
• RECESSED
  1. Having a recess or recesses; as, a recessed arch or wall. 2. Withdrawn; secluded. "Comfortably recessed from curious impertinents." Miss Edgeworth. Recessed arch , one of a series of arches constructed one within another so as to correspond
• FLEERER
  One who fleers. Beau. & Fl.
• DEATHLINESS
  The quality of being deathly; deadliness. Southey.
• SALLYMAN
  The velella; -- called also saleeman.
• SALLY
  To leap or rush out; to burst forth; to issue suddenly; as a body of troops from a fortified place to attack besiegers; to make a sally. They break the truce, and sally out by night. Dryden. The foe retires, -- she heads the sallying host. Byron.
• FLIGHTER
  A horizontal vane revolving over the surface of wort in a cooler, to produce a circular current in the liquor. Knight.
• RETREATFUL
  Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
• DEPARTURE
  The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another. Bouvier. (more info) 1. Division; separation; putting away. No other remedy . . . but absolute departure. Milton.
• SOARING
  from Soar. -- Soar"ing*ly, adv.
• DISTRACTION
  1. The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation. To create distractions among us. Bp. Burnet. 2. That which diverts attention; a diversion. "Domestic distractions." G. Eliot. 3. A diversity of direction; detachment. His power went out in
• EXPIRATION
  The act or process of breathing out, or forcing air from the lungs through the nose or mouth; as, respiration consists of inspiration and expiration; -- opposed to Ant: inspiration. Emission of volatile matter; exhalation. The true cause of cold
• FLY-FISH
  To angle, using flies for bait. Walton.
• BEGIN
  beginnen, OHG. biginnan, Goth., du-ginnan, Sw. begynna, Dan. begynde); pref. be- + an assumed ginnan. sq. root31. See Gin to 1. To have or commence an independent or first existence; to take rise; to commence. Vast chain of being! which from God
• WHITE FLY
  Any one of numerous small injurious hemipterous insects of the genus Aleyrodes, allied to scale insects. They are usually covered with a white or gray powder.
• FIREFLY
  Any luminous winged insect, esp. luminous beetles of the family Lampyridæ. Note: The common American species belong to the genera Photinus and Photuris, in which both sexes are winged. The name is also applied to luminous species of Elateridæ.
• VINEGAR FLY
  Any of several fruit flies, esp. Drosophila ampelopophila, which breed in imperfectly sealed preserves and in pickles.
• GADFLY
  Any dipterous insect of the genus Oestrus, and allied genera of botflies. Note: The sheep gadfly deposits its young in the nostrils of sheep, and the larvæ develop in the frontal sinuses. The common species which infests cattle deposits its
• SAWFLY
  Any one of numerous species of hymenopterous insects belonging to the family Tenthredinidæ. The female usually has an ovipositor containing a pair of sawlike organs with which she makes incisions in the leaves or stems of plants in which to lay
• GORFLY
  A dung fly.