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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
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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