departedadj.
/dɪˈpɑːtəd/ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > [adjective] > divided
departedc1386
parteda1398
distinct1434
divided1565
partite1570
shedded1575
dismembered1578
severed1581
splitted1594
shared1598
distract1609
disparted1633
split1648
dipartited1825
splitten1832
dipartite1885
c1386 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale ⁋898 (Harl.) 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.
1463 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 36 I beqwethe..a doubyl ryng departyd of gold, with a ruby and a turkeys.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > aspects of faith > apostasy > [adjective]
forraughtc1175
renayedc1380
apostate1382
apostasied1393
relapse?a1425
departed1439
renegate1488
retractive1509
apostatical1532
shrinking1535
apostatatec1540
runagate1558
apostatic1583
apostatous1588
collapsed1609
renegado1612
recreant1613
apotactical1615
apostatized1629
apostating1630
lapsed1638
apostated1642
apostatizing1652
renegade1664
diabolonian1682
backsliding1816
relapsing1864
backslidden1871
1439 Countess of Warwick in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 117 A Skochen of myn Armes departyd with my lordys.
?c1510 tr. Newe Landes & People founde by Kynge of Portyngale sig. C.ii These ketters..is departed of the holy Romes chyrche.
1631 Earl of Manchester Contemplatio Mortis 11 Consider Death originally or in his owne nature, and it is but a departed breath from dead earth.
3. That has departed or gone away; past, bygone.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > [adjective]
formerc1160
apassedc1314
past1340
preterite1340
eldera1400
elderna1400
eldernlya1400
bygone1424
bypast1452
ancient1490
by-runa1522
bywenta1522
spent1528
departed1552
forepassed1557
preter1578
by-come1592
worn-out1594
preterlapsed1599
foregone1609
worna1616
elapseda1644
lapsed1702
surpassed1725
gone-by1758
back1808
old-time1865
by-flown1884
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Departed, dissitus, præteritus.
1845 J. Saunders Cabinet Pictures of Eng. Life: Chaucer 20 Antiquity and departed greatness.
4.
a. spec. That has departed this life; deceased.
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the world > life > death > dead person or the dead > [adjective]
deadOE
lifelessOE
of lifeOE
storvena1225
dead as a door-nail1362
ydead1387
stark deadc1390
colda1400
bypast1425
perishedc1440
morta1450
obita1450
unquickc1449
gone?a1475
dead and gone1482
extinct1483
departed1503
bygonea1522
amort1546
soulless1553
breathless1562
parted1562
mortified1592
low-laid1598
disanimate1601
carcasseda1603
defunct1603
no morea1616
with God1617
death-stricken1618
death-strucken1622
expired1631
past itc1635
incinerated1657
stock-dead1662
dead as a herring1664
death-struck1688
as dead as a nit1789
(as) dead as mutton1792
low1808
laid in the locker1815
strae-dead1820
disanimated1833
ghosted1834
under the daisies1842
irresuscitable1843
under the sod1847
toes up1851
dead and buried1863
devitalized1866
translated1869
dead and done (for, with)1886
daid1890
bung1893
(as) dead as the (or a) dodo1904
six feet under1942
brown bread1969
1503–4 Act 19 Hen. VII c. 25 Pream. Lyfe [is] as uncertayne to such as survyve as to them now departed.
1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor v. iii. sig. Piv Mac... Shedding Funerall teares ouer his departed Dogge. Carl. What's his Dogge dead? View more context for this quotation
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 419. ¶1 Magicians, Demons, and departed Spirits.
1863 H. Fawcett Man. Polit. Econ. iii. ii. 311 The works of a departed artist.
b. In this sense often used absolutely, the departed (singular and plural): cf. deceased adj. Also (esp. jocular) the dear departed.
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the world > life > death > dead person or the dead > [noun]
the holy soulsc950
the deadc1000
dead1340
deadmana1400
the defunct1548
sleeper1590
gone?1614
grave-fellow1642
under-dead1648
the deceased1673
the majority1721
the departed1722
the dear departed1814
sleeper1827
goner1836
gone coon1837
silent majority1874
1722 W. Wollaston Relig. of Nature ix. 208 The seats and circumstances of the departed.
1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho I. ii. 53 A prayer for the soul of the departed.
1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park I. iii. 56 Barely enough to..enable me to live so as not to disgrace the memory of the dear departed . View more context for this quotation
1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby iii. 20 The dear departed had never deigned to profit by her advice.
1868 L. M. Alcott Little Women I. xi. 167 Beth..sat making a winding-sheet, while the dear departed lay..in the domino-box.
1875 H. E. Manning Internal Mission of Holy Ghost ix. 249 The Catholic Church..cherishes with loving memory all her departed.
1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Æneid vi, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 273 The departed is placed on the funeral bed.
1910 W. S. Houghton (title) The dear departed.
1964 E. Longford Victoria R.I. xxiv. 355 If the living Albert kept Queen Victoria and Disraeli apart, the dear departed brought them together.
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