departure

No other remedy . . . but absolute departure. --Milton.
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2. Separation or removal from a place; the act or process of departing or going away.
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Departure from this happy place. --Milton. [1913 Webster]

3. Removal from the present life; death; decease. [1913 Webster]

The time of my departure is at hand. --2 Tim. iv. 6.
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His timely departure . . . barred him from the knowledge of his son s miseries. --Sir P.
Sidney.
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4. Deviation or abandonment, as from or of a rule or course of action, a plan, or a purpose.
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Any departure from a national standard. --Prescott. [1913 Webster]

5. (Law) 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.
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6. (Nav. & Surv.) The distance due east or west which a person or ship passes over in going along an oblique line.
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Note: Since the meridians sensibly converge, the departure in navigation is not measured from the beginning nor from
the end of the ship s course, but is regarded as the
total easting or westing made by the ship or person as
he travels over the course.
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To take a departure (Nav. & Surv.), to ascertain, usually by taking bearings from a landmark, the position of a
vessel at the beginning of a voyage as a point from which
to begin her dead reckoning; as, the ship took her
departure from Sandy Hook.

Syn: Death; demise; release. See Death. [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English