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With very little excuse for departing so abruptly, Ralph left him, […]
2009 September 7, George Monbiot, The Guardian:
The government maintains that if its regulations are too stiff, British bankers will leave the country. It's true that they have been threatening to depart in droves, but the obvious answer is: "Sod off then."
And soo she receyued hym vpon suffysaunt seurte / so alle her hurtes were wel restored of al that she coude complayne / and thenne he departed vnto the Courte of kyne Arthur / and there openly the reed knyghte of the reed laundes putte hym in the mercy of syre Launcelot and syr Gawayne
And, as the Cock crew, those who stood before The Tavern shouted — "Open then the Door! You know how little while we have to stay, And, once departed, may return no more."
His latest statements seemed to depart from party policy somewhat.
to depart from a title or defence in legal pleading
1788, James Madison, “Number 39,” in Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison, The Federalist, On the New Constitution, Philadelphia: Benjamin Warner, 1818, p. 204,
If the plan of the convention, therefore, be found to depart from the republican character, its advocates must abandon it as no longer defensible.
1960, Muriel Spark, chapter 12, in The Bachelors, Philadelphia: Lippincott, published 1961, page 201:
[...] he compared the precise points at which the handwriting of the letter departed from examples of Freda Flower’s handwriting and coincided with examples of Patrick Seton’s [...]
1960 February, “The first of London's new Piccadilly Line trains is delivered”, in Trains Illustrated, page 94:
The interior colour scheme departs from the conventional L.T. red and green upholstery and matching paintwork, which has been replaced by a maroon and grey moquette with dove grey paint below the waist rail.
1589, John Eliot, transl., Aduise giuen by a Catholike gentleman, to the nobilitie & commons of France, London: John Wolfe, page 27:
[...] he [...] did pray them only to do no thing against the honor of God, & rather to depart the territories of his empire, then to suffer their consciences to be forced.
At one stage, when I happened to depart the room in the midst of an address by one of the German gentlemen, M. Dupont suddenly rose and followed me out.
She felt what Mrs Maja Picotti had suspected in her prayers, that her soul had departed her body.
2009, The Guardian, Sport Blog, 9 September:
The build-up to Saturday's visit of Macedonia and this encounter with the Dutch could be construed as odd in the sense that there seemed a basic acceptance, inevitability even, that Burley would depart office in their immediate aftermath.
(transitive, intransitive,aviation) To lose control of an aircraft; to "depart" (sense 5) from controlled flight (with the aircraft as the direct object)
The envelope protection system allows the pilot to maneuver at high angles of attack without the risk of departing the airplane
and so all the worlde seythe that betwyxte three knyghtes is departed clerely knyghthode, that is Sir Launcelot du Lake, Sir Trystrams de Lyones and Sir Lamerok de Galys—thes bere now the renowne.
1595, Jacques Hurault, translated by Arthur Golding, Politicke, Moral, and Martial Discourses, London: Adam Islip, Book 3, Chapter 17, p. 458:
Then fortified hee his trenches, and departed them in foure quarters, wherein he made good store of fires, in such distance one from another, as are woont to be made in a campe.
1597, Thomas Dawson, The Second part of the good Hus-wiues Iewell, London: Edward White:
Fyrst on that day yee shall serue a calfe sodden and blessed, and sodden egs with greene sauce, and set them before the most principall estate, and that Lorde because of his high estate, shal depart them al about him [...]
1602, “Extract out of the Acts of the Councell of Nice”, in Patrick Simon, transl., The Estate of the Church with the Discourse of Times, from the Apostles untill This Present, London: Thomas Creede, page 102:
That Deacons be not preferred before Priests, nor sit in their ranke, nor in their presence do distribute the Sacraments but only minister vnto them, and assist when they do distribute: but when there are no Priests there, in that case they may depart them.
I .N. take thee .N. to my wedded wife, to haue ⁊ to holde from this day forwarde, for better, for wurſe, for richer, for poorer, in ſickenes, and in health, to loue, and to cheriſhe, til death vs departe: according to Goddes holy ordeinaunce: And therto I plight thee my trouth.
1550, Thomas Nicholls, transl., The Hystory Writtone by Thucidides the Athenyan, London, Book 3, Chapter 2, p. 74:
Thies be than the causes [...] for the whiche we depart our selues from the Athenyans [...]
1582, Stephen Batman (translator), Batman vppon Bartholome his booke De proprietatibus rerum, London: Thomas East, Book 5, Chapter 26, “Of the shoulders,”
The twisted forkes be néedfull to binde the shoulders, and to depart them from the breast.
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1633, John Donne, “To M. I. L.”, in Poems, London: John Marriot, page 101:
Of that short Roll of friends writ in my heart Which with thy name begins, since their depart, Whether in the English Provinces they be, Or drinke of Po, Sequan, or Danubie,