Descend - DEPART, v.i.
1. To go or move from.
Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire. Mat 25.
It is followed by from, or from is implied before the place left.
I will depart to my own land, that is, I will depart from this place to my own land. Num 10.
2. To go from; to leave; to desist, as from a practice. Jehu departed not from the sins of Jeroboam. Jehoshaphat departed not from the way of Asa his father.
3. To leave; to deviate from; to forsake; not to adhere to or follow; as, we cannot depart from our rules.
I have not departed from thy judgments. Psa 119.
4. To desist; to leave; to abandon; as, he would not depart from his purpose, resolution, or demand.
5. To be lost; to perish; to vanish; as, his glory has departed.
6. To die; to decease; to leave this world.
Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word. Luke 2.
To depart this life is elliptical, from being understood.
8. To cease.
The prey departeth not. Nahum 3.
9. To deviate; to vary from.
If the plan of the convention be found to depart from republican principles-
10. To vary; to deviate from the title or defense in pleading.
11. To part with.
To depart from God, is to forsake his service and live in sin; to apostatize; to revolt; to desert his government and laws.
God departs from men, when he abandons them to their own sinful inclinations, or ceases to bestow on them his favor. Hosea 9.
DEPART, v.t. To divide or separate; to part.
DEPART, n.
1. The act of going away; death.
2. Division; separation.
Desolation - DESOLATION, n.
1. The act of desolating destruction or expulsion of inhabitants; destruction; ruin; waste.
Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation. Mat 12.
2. A place deprived of inhabitants, or otherwise wasted, ravaged and ruined.
How is Babylon become a desolation among the nations. Jer 50.
3. A desolate state; gloominess; sadness; destitution.
The abomination of desolation, Roman armies which ravaged and destroyed Jerusalem. Mat 24.
Despise - DESPISE, .v.t.
1. To contemn; to scorn; to disdain; to have the lowest opinion of.
Fools despise wisdom and instruction. Prov 1.
Else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Mat 6.
2. To abhor.
Despitefully - DESPITEFULLY, adv. With despite; maliciously; contemptuously.
Pray for them that despitefully use you. Mat 5.
Destroy - DESTROY, v.t. [L. To pile, to build.]
1. To demolish; to pull down; to separate the parts of an edifice, the union of which is necessary to constitute the thing; as, to destroy a house or temple; to destroy a fortification.
2. To ruin; to annihilate a thing by demolishing or by burning; as, to destroy a city.
3. To ruin; to bring to naught; to annihilate; as, to destroy a theory or scheme; to destroy a government; to destroy influence.
4. To lay waste; to make desolate.
Go up against this land, and destroy it. Isa 36.
5. To kill; to slay; to extirpate; applied to men or other animals.
Ye shall destroy all this people. Num 32.
All the wicked will he destroy. Psa 145.
6. To take away; to cause to cease; to put an end to; as, pain destroys happiness.
That the body of sin might be destroyed. Rom 6.
7. To kill; to eat; to devour; to consume. Birds destroy insects. Hawks destroy chickens.
8. In general, to put an end to; to annihilate a thing or the form in which it exists. An army is destroyed by slaughter, capture or dispersion; a forest, by the ax, or by fire; towns, by fire or inundation, &c.
9. In chemistry, to resolve a body into its parts or elements.