DEPART, DEPARTURE Copy link • DEPART, DEPARTUREThe act of going away, profectio (the setting out): discessus, seldom abitus, a or de loco: at the moment of departure, proficiscens; sub ipsa profectione: just before his departure he said, abiturus jam dixit: to prepare for departure, iter parare, comparare. He resolved not to put off his departure for Greece any longer, non ultra differre profectionem in Graeciam constituit (Liv.). Decease. Vid. DECEASE, or DEMISE.