a. Pertaining to the time before the Passover, or before Easter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. ante- + L. pastus pasture, food. Cf. Repast. ] A foretaste. [ 1913 Webster ]

Antepasts of joy and comforts. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. anti- + sepal. ] (Bot.) Standing before a sepal, or calyx leaf. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To paint; to cover or color with, or as with, paint. [ 1913 Webster ]

Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. cepa, caepa, onion. ] Of the nature of an onion, as in odor; alliaceous. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A thin portion of the rind of a cheese. -- a. Scrimping; mean; as, cheeseparing economy. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. [ Mexican conepatl and epatl. ] (Zool.) The skunk. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Cf. L. crepare to crack. ] (Far.) An injury in a horse's leg, caused by the shoe of one hind foot striking and cutting the other leg. It sometimes forms an ulcer. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. [ F. dépeint, p. p. of dépeindre to paint, fr. L. depingere. See Depict, p. p. ] Painted. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Depainted; p. pr. & vb. n. Depainting. ] 1. To paint; to picture; hence, to describe; to delineate in words; to depict. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

And do unwilling worship to the saint
That on his shield depainted he did see. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

In few words shall see the nature of many memorable persons . . . depainted. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To mark with, or as with, color; to color. [ 1913 Webster ]

Silver drops her vermeil cheeks depaint. Fairfax. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. One who depaints. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

interj. [ OF., a corruption of de part Dieu, lit., on the part of God. ] In God's name; certainly. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Departed; p. pr. & vb. n. Departing. ] [ OE. departen to divide, part, depart, F. départir to divide, distribute, se départir to separate one's self, depart; pref. dé- (L. de) + partir to part, depart, fr. L. partire, partiri, to divide, fr. pars part. See Part. ] 1. To part; to divide; to separate. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To go forth or away; to quit, leave, or separate, as from a place or a person; to withdraw; -- opposed to arrive; -- often with from before the place, person, or thing left, and for or to before the destination. [ 1913 Webster ]

I will depart to mine own land. Num. x. 30. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ere thou from hence depart. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

He which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To forsake; to abandon; to desist or deviate (from); not to adhere to; -- with from; as, we can not depart from our rules; to depart from a title or defense in legal pleading. [ 1913 Webster ]

If the plan of the convention be found to depart from republican principles. Madison. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To pass away; to perish. [ 1913 Webster ]

The glory is departed from Israel. 1 Sam. iv. 21. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To quit this world; to die. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace. Luke ii. 29. [ 1913 Webster ]

To depart with, to resign; to part with. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To part thoroughly; to dispart; to divide; to separate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Till death departed them, this life they lead. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To divide in order to share; to apportion. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

And here is gold, and that full great plentee,
That shall departed been among us three. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To leave; to depart from. “He departed this life.” Addison. “Ere I depart his house.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. départ, fr. départir. ] 1. Division; separation, as of compound substances into their ingredients. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The chymists have a liquor called water of depart. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A going away; departure; hence, death. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

At my depart for France. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Your loss and his depart. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Divisible. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. sing. & pl. someone who is no longer alive; as, let us pray for the departed.
Syn. -- dead person, dead soul, deceased person, deceased, decedent. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. past; -- used of time; as, departed summers.
Syn. -- bygone, bypast, foregone, gone. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

2. dead; as, our dear departed parents. [ euphemistic ]
Syn. -- asleep(predicate), at peace(predicate), at rest(predicate), cold, deceased, gone. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. One who refines metals by separation. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who departs. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. leaving a starting or stopping point on a journey; as, Departing flights were delayed by the snowstorm. Opposite of arriving. [ prenominal ]
Syn. -- outbound, outward, outward-bound. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. [ F. département, fr. départir. See Depart, v. i. ] 1. Act of departing; departure. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Sudden departments from one extreme to another. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A part, portion, or subdivision. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province. [ 1913 Webster ]

Superior to Pope in Pope's own peculiar department of literature. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Subdivision of business or official duty; especially, one of the principal divisions of executive government; as, the treasury department; the war department; also, in a university, one of the divisions of instruction; as, the medical department; the department of physics. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A territorial division; a district; esp., in France, one of the districts composed of several arrondissements into which the country is divided for governmental purposes; as, the Department of the Loire. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A military subdivision of a country; as, the Department of the Potomac. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to a department or division. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A store keeping a great variety of goods which are arranged in several departments. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

n. [ From Depart. ] 1. Division; separation; putting away. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

No other remedy . . . but absolute departure. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Separation or removal from a place; the act or process of departing or going away. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

His timely departure . . . barred him from the knowledge of his son's miseries. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Deviation or abandonment, as from or of a rule or course of action, a plan, or a purpose. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Nav. & Surv.) The distance due east or west which a person or ship passes over in going along an oblique line. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 ]

a. [ L. depascens, p. pr. of depascere; de- + pascere to feed. ] Feeding. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. To pasture; to feed; to graze; also, to use for pasture. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Cattle, to graze and departure in his grounds. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

A right to cut wood upon or departure land. Washburn. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ L. de- + patria one's country. ] To withdraw, or cause to withdraw, from one's country; to banish. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A subject born in any state
May, if he please, depatriate. Mason. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. Depauperated p. pr. & vb. n. Depauperating ] [ LL. depauperatus, p. p. depauperare to impoverish; L. de- + pauperare to make poor, pauper poor. ] To make poor; to impoverish. [ 1913 Webster ]

Liming does not depauperate; the ground will last long, and bear large grain. Mortimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Humility of mind which depauperates the spirit. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. depauperatus, p. p. ] (Bot.) Falling short of the natural size, from being impoverished or starved. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To free from paupers; to rescue from poverty. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n.; pl. -ances -ancies [ L. disrepantia: cf. OF. discrepance. See Discrepant. ] The state or quality of being discrepant; disagreement; variance; discordance; dissimilarity; contrariety. [ 1913 Webster ]

There hath been ever a discrepance of vesture of youth and age, men and women. Sir T. Elyot. [ 1913 Webster ]

There is no real discrepancy between these two genealogies. G. S. Faber. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. discrepans, -antis, p. pr. of discrepare to sound differently or discordantly; dis- + crepare to rattle, creak: cf. OF. discrepant. See Crepitate. ] Discordant; at variance; disagreeing; contrary; different. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Egyptians were . . . the most oddly discrepant from the rest in their manner of worship. Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A dissident. J. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. di- + sepalous. ] (Bot.) Having two sepals; two-sepaled. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To render unprepared. [ Obs. ] Hobbes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A state of being in bad condition, and needing repair. [ 1913 Webster ]

The fortifications were ancient and in disrepair. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., from Gr. 'e`pakros pointed at the end. So called in allusion to the sharply pointed leaves. ] (Bot.) A genus of shrubs, natives of Australia, New Zealand, etc., having pretty white, red, or purple blossoms, and much resembling heaths. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. épacte, fr. Gr. 'epakto`s brought on or in, added, fr. 'epa`gein to bring on or in; 'epi` on, in + 'a`gein to bring or lead. See Epi-, and Act. ] (Chron.) The moon's age at the beginning of the calendar year, or the number of days by which the last new moon has preceded the beginning of the year. [ 1913 Webster ]

Annual epact, the excess of the solar year over the lunar year, -- being eleven days. --
Menstrual epact, or
Monthly epact, the excess of a calendar month over a lunar. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., from Gr. 'epagwgh` a bringing in, fr. 'epa`gein. See Epact. ] (Logic) The adducing of particular examples so as to lead to a universal conclusion; the argument by induction. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Inductive. Latham. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. e- + palpus. ] (Zoöl.) Without palpi. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;; 'epi` + &unr_; to make double. ] (Rhet.) A figure by which the same word is used both at the beginning and at the end of a sentence; as, “Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice.” Phil. iv. 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;; 'epi` + &unr_; to take up. ] (Rhet.) A figure by which the same word or clause is repeated after intervening matter. Gibbs. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_; a recurrence; 'epi` + &unr_; to bring or carry back. ] (Rhet.) Same as Anaphora. Gibbs. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., from Gr. &unr_; a return, epanastrophe; 'epi` + &unr_; to return. ] (Rhet.) Same as Anadiplosis. Gibbs. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_; a rising, return; 'epi` + &unr_; a way up, rising; &unr_; up + &unr_; way. ] (Rhet.) A figure of speech in which the parts of a sentence or clause are repeated in inverse order, as in the following: -- [ 1913 Webster ]

O more exceeding love, or law more just?
Just law, indeed, but more exceeding love! Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Epanodos. ] (Bot.) The abnormal change of an irregular flower to a regular form; -- considered by evolutionists to be a reversion to an ancestral condition. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;; 'epi` + &unr_; to set right again; &unr_; again + &unr_; to set straight. ] A figure by which a speaker recalls a word or words, in order to substitute something else stronger or more significant; as, Most brave! Brave, did I say? most heroic act! [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. ep- + Gr. 'a`nqos flower. ] (Bot.) Growing upon flowers; -- said of certain species of fungi. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;; 'epi` over + &unr_; chief, &unr_; supreme power, dominion. ] In ancient Greece, the governor or perfect of a province; in modern Greece, the ruler of an eparchy. [ 1913 Webster ]