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departed, ppl. a.|dɪˈpɑːtəd|
[f. depart v. + -ed1.]
†1. Divided into parts, etc.: see depart v. 1, 2.
c1386Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋898 (H.) Eyther thay forletin her confessours al utterly, or ellis thay departen here schrifte in divers places; but sothely such departed schrifte hath no mercy of God. 1463Bury Wills (1850) 36, I beqwethe..a doubyl ryng departyd of gold, with a ruby and a turkeys.
†2. Separated, parted; severed from the main body, schismatic, apostate; in Her. separated by a dividing line (cf. party a.). Obs.
1439C'tess Warwick in E.E. Wills (1883) 117 A Skochen of myn Armes departyd with my lordys. c15111st Eng. Bk. Amer. (Arb.) Introd. 31/1 These ketters..is departed of the holy Romes chyrche. 1633Earl of Manchester Al Mondo (1636) 14 If wee consider Death aright, It is but a departed breath from dead earth.
3. That has departed or gone away; past, bygone.
1552Huloet, Departed, dissitus, præteritus. 1845J. Saunders Cabinet Pictures 20 Antiquity and departed greatness.
4. a. spec. That has departed this life; deceased.
1503–4Act 19 Hen. VII, c. 25 Pream., Lyfe [is] as uncertayne to such as survyve as to them now departed. 1599B. Jonson Ev. Man out of Hum. v. iv, Shedding funereal tears over his departed dog. 1712Addison Spect. No. 419 ⁋1 Magicians, Demons, and departed Spirits. 1863Fawcett Pol. Econ. iii. ii. 311 The works of a departed artist.
b. In this sense often used absolutely, the departed (sing. and pl.): cf. deceased. Also (esp. joc.) the dear departed.
1722Wollaston Relig. Nat. ix. 208 The seats and circumstances of the departed. 1794Mrs. Radcliffe Myst. Udolpho ii, A prayer for the soul of the departed. 1814Jane Austen Mansf. Park iii. 56 Barely enough to..enable me to live so as not to disgrace the memory of the dear departed. 1838Dickens Nich. Nick. iii. 20 The dear departed had never deigned to profit by her advice. 1868L. M. Alcott Little Women (1871) xi. 137 Beth..sat making a winding-sheet, while the dear-departed lay in the domino-box. 1875Manning Mission H. Ghost ix. 249 The Catholic Church..cherishes with loving memory all her departed. 1887Bowen æneid vi. 220 The departed is placed on the funeral bed. 1910W. S. Houghton (title) The dear departed. 1964E. Longford Victoria R.I. xxiv. 355 If the living Albert kept Queen Victoria and Disraeli apart, the dear departed brought them together. |