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simple past and past participle of depart examples
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Having gone away. examples
(euphemistic) Dead. examples
plural departeds
(euphemistic) A dead person or persons. quotations examples
... and our Theologians, in stead thereof vie to make sermons, both teaching the people some good learning, and also saying well of the departed.
1589, George Puttenham, edited by Edward Arber, The Arte of English Poesie, published 1869, page 63