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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Remote \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.
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Places remote enough are in Bohemia. --Shak.
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Remote from men, with God he passed his days.
--Parnell.
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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.
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3. (Bot.) Separated by intervals greater than usual.
[1913 Webster] -- {Re*mote"ly}, adv. -- {Re*mote"ness}, n.
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