Which advantages God propounds to all the hearers of the Gospel, without any respect of works or former demureness of life, if so be they will but now come in and close with this high and rich dispensation.—Id., Grand Mystery of Godliness, b. viii. c. 5.
She is so nice and so demure,
So sober, courteous, modest, and precise.
True History of King Leir, 1605.
In like manner women also in comely attire; with demureness [cum verecundiâ, Vulg.] and sobriety adorning themselves.—1 Tim. ii. 9. Rheims.
His carriage was full comely and upright,
His countenance demure and temperate.
Spenser, Fairy Queen, ii. 1, 6.
Depart. Once used as equivalent with ‘to separate’ (divido, partior, Promptorium Parvulorum)—a fact already forgotten, when, at the last revision of the Prayer-Book in 1662, the Puritan divines objected to the form as it then stood in the Marriage Service, ‘till death us depart;’ in condescension to whose objection the words, as we now have them, ‘till death us do part,’ were introduced.
And he schal departe hem atwynne, as a scheepherde departith scheep fro kidis.—Matt. xxv. 32. Wiclif.