▪ I. deˈparting, vbl. n.
[f. depart v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb depart, in various senses.
† 1. Division (in various senses); distribution, sharing. Obs.
| a 1340 Hampole Psalter cxxxv. 13 He departyd þe redd see in departynges. c 1380 Wyclif Wks. (1880) 81 In departyng of meritis to whom þat hem likiþ. 1382 ― 1 Cor. xii. 6 Departingis of worchingis. 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xv. xlvi. (1495) 504 Dalmacia is a prouynce of Grece by olde departynge of londe. c 1449 Pecock Repr. 407 In summe cuntreis the departing was mad other wise and into iij parties. c 1450 Merlin 236 Ech man toke at his wille of that hym liked, and made noon other departynge. 1513 Douglas æneis vi. Prol. 90 The sted of fell turmentis, With seir departingis. 1599 Hakluyt Voy. II. i. 93 In departing of the bootie. |
† 2. Separation. Obs. or arch.
| c 1300 K. Alis. 912 And makith mony departyng Bytweone knyght and his swetyng. c 1340 Cursor M. 895 (Fairf.) Fra þis day sal departynge be for-soþ betwix wommon and þe. c 1400 Apol. Loll. 72 Be ware of making of mariagis, & of diuorsis or departingis. 1530 Palsgr. 213/1 Departynge of man and wyfe, repudiation, diuorse. 1593 Shakes. 3 Hen. VI, ii. vi. 43 A deadly grone like life and deaths departing. 1852–5 M. Arnold Poems, Faded Leaves, At this bitter departing. |
† b. concr. Place of separation; division, boundary. Obs.
| 1460–70 Bk. Quintessence 5 And þat erþely watir wole first come out þat is in þe necke, and so til it be come out vnto þe departinge bitwixe it and þe quinte essence. |
3. The action of leaving, taking one's leave or going away; departure. (In early use ‘leaving each other, separation’, as in 2. Now rare or Obs.; replaced by departure.)
| a 1225 Ancr. R. 250 Þis was his driwerie þet he bileauede and ȝef ham in his departunge. 1340 Hampole Pr. Consc. 6113 Þe day of departyng fra God away. c 1386 Chaucer Man of Law's T. 162 The day is come of hire departyng. 1481–90 Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.) 186 At my Lordes departynge from London. c 1500 Three Kings Sons 73 Athis, my frende, the tyme is come now of oure departyng. 1644 Milton Judgm. Bucer (1851) 335 Not..the mis-beleeving of him who departs, but the departing of him who mis-beleevs. |
† b. = departure 2 b; decease, death. Obs.
| 1388 Wyclif 2 Tim. iv. 6 The tyme of my departyng is nyȝ. 1535 Stewart Cron. Scot. II. 486 How King Donald was crownit..and of his worthie Deidis..and his Departing. 1633 Bp. Hall Medit. & Vows, Passing Bell (1851) 87 It calls us..to our preparation, for our own departing. |
| attrib. a 1618 Raleigh Rem. (1664) 114 If you were laid upon your departing bed. |
† c. fig. Departure from a given state or course; falling away; secession, desertion, apostasy.
| 1526 Tindale 2 Thess. ii. 3 Except there come a departynge fyrst. 1594 T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. ii. 563 The departing and declining of the soule. |
† 4. departing with: parting with, giving up.
| 1529 Wolsey in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. i. II. 11 Of the frankke departyng with of all that I had in thys world. |
▪ II. deˈparting, ppl. a.
[f. depart v. + -ing2.]
That departs, goes away, or takes leave; parting; fig. vanishing (often with reference to sense b).
| 1751 Johnson Rambler No. 187 ¶3 She stood awhile to gaze upon the departing vessel. 1855 Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 57 The opposite streams of entering and departing courtiers. 1875 Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 155 Reflecting the departing glory of Hellas. 18.. Thring Hymn ‘The Radiant morn’, The shadows of departing day. |
b. Dying.
| 1603 Knolles Hist. Turks (1638) 331 It is the only sacrifice that my old departing ghost desireth of thee. 1633 Bp. Hall Medit. & Vows, Passing-bell (1851) 87 It calls us..to our prayers, for the departing soul. 1848 Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 183 While the prayer for the departing was read at his bedside. |