Depart vs Forthfare - What's the difference?
depart | forthfare |
To leave.
*Shakespeare
*:He which hath no stomach to this fight, / Let him depart .
*2009 , George Monbiot, The Guardian , 7 September:
*: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."
To set out on a journey.
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*: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
To die.
*Bible, Luke ii. 29:
*:Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace.
To deviate (from).
:His latest statements seemed to depart from party policy somewhat.
:to depart from a title or defence in legal pleading
*Madison
*:if the plan of the convention be found to depart from republican principles
To go away from; to leave.
*Bible, 1 Sam. iv. 2:
*:The glory is departed from Israel.
*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.
(obsolete) To divide up; to distribute, share.
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*: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.
(obsolete) To separate, part.
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:(Shakespeare)
(obsolete) division; separation, as of compound substances
* Francis Bacon
(obsolete) A going away; departure.
* Shakespeare
To go forth; go away; depart; journey.
*1905 , Francis Lynde, A fool for love :
*1908 , The Homiletic review: Volume 56 - Page 450:
*1918 , Francis Lynde, Branded :
*1921 , Eliakim Littell, The living age: Volume 309 - Page 434 :
*2002 , Irene Gammel, Making Avonlea :
To decease; pass away; die.
As nouns the difference between depart and forthfare
is that depart is departure, start while forthfare is (obsolete) departure.As verbs the difference between depart and forthfare
is that depart is third-person singular indicative present of while forthfare is to go forth; go away; depart; journey.depart
English
Verb
(en verb)- Syr knyght[,] said the two squyers that were with her[,] yonder are two knyghtes that fyghte for thys lady, goo thyder and departe them.
Synonyms
* (to leave) duck out, go, go away, leave, part, pull up stakes, start, start out, set forth, split, set off, set out, take off, take leave, quit * (to die) die * (to deviate) deviate, digress, diverge, sidetrack, straggle, vary * (to go away from) leaveAntonyms
* (to leave): arrive, come, stay * (to die): live * (to deviate): conformNoun
- The chymists have a liquor called water of depart .
- At my depart for France.
Anagrams
*forthfare
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) forthfaren, from (etyl) *.Verb
- When he had learned what he wanted to know, he forthfared to meet Winton at the incoming train.
- [...] with great-hearted Christians fighting for each other instead of against each other, all just forthfaring unitedly for the Christianizing of the world, [...]
- There was nobody to meet me as I forthfared from the prison gates, but I was not expecting any one and so was not disappointed.
- [...] That Love may go forthfaring unafraid.
- The evolution of energetic, industrious, forthfaring peoples under the peculiarly favourable climatic conditions of north-western Europe is the most important element in that success.