Re*mote" (r?-m?t"), a.
[Compar. Remoter (-?r);
superl. Remotest.]
[L.
remotus, p. p. of removere to remove. See Remove.] 1. Removed to a
distance; not near; far away; distant; -- said in respect to time or to
place; as, remote ages; remote
lands.
Places remote enough are in Bohemia.
Shak.
Remote from men, with God he
passed his days.
Parnell.
2. Hence, removed; not agreeing, according, or being related; -- in various figurative uses. Specifically: (a) Not agreeing; alien; foreign. "All these propositions, how remote soever from reason." Locke. (b) Not nearly related; not close; as,
a remote connection or consanguinity. (c) Separate; abstracted. "Wherever the mind places itself by any thought, either amongst, or remote from, all bodies." Locke.
(d) Not proximate or acting directly; primary; distant. "From the effect to the
remotest cause." Granville. (e) Not obvious or sriking; as, a remote resemblance.
3.
(Bot.) Separated by
intervals greater than usual.
-- Re*mote"ly, adv.
-- Re*mote"ness, n.
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