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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
departed
adj
  1. well in the past; former; "bygone days"; "dreams of foregone times"; "sweet memories of gone summers"; "relics of a departed era"
    Synonym(s): bygone, bypast, departed, foregone, gone
  2. dead; "he is deceased"; "our dear departed friend"
    Synonym(s): asleep(p), at peace(p), at rest(p), deceased, departed, gone
n
  1. someone who is no longer alive; "I wonder what the dead person would have done"
    Synonym(s): dead person, dead soul, deceased person, deceased, decedent, departed
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Depart \De*part"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Departed}; p. pr. & vb.
      n. {Departing}.] [OE. departen to divide, part, depart, F.
      d[82]partir to divide, distribute, se d[82]partir to separate
      one's self, depart; pref. d[82]- (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.
  
      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.
  
                     I will depart to mine own land.         --Num. x. 30.
  
                     Ere thou from hence depart.               --Milton.
  
                     He which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him
                     depart.                                             --Shak.
  
      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.
  
                     If the plan of the convention be found to depart
                     from republican principles.               --Madison.
  
      4. To pass away; to perish.
  
                     The glory is departed from Israel.      --1 Sam. iv.
                                                                              21.
  
      5. To quit this world; to die.
  
                     Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace.
                                                                              --Luke ii. 29.
  
      {To depart with}, to resign; to part with. [Obs.] --Shak.
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