3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Removed  \Re*moved"\  (r?-m??vd"),  a. 
  1.  Changed  in  place 
 
  2.  Dismissed  from  office. 
 
  3.  Distant  in  location;  remote.  ``Something  finer  than  you 
  could  purchase  in  so  removed  a  dwelling.''  --Shak. 
 
  4.  Distant  by  degrees  in  relationship;  as  a  cousin  once 
  removed.  --  {Re*mov"ed*ness}  (r?-m??v"?d-n?s),  n.  --Shak. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Remove  \Re*move"\  (r?-m??v"),  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Removed} 
  (-m??vd");  p.  pr  &  vb  n.  {Removing}.]  [OF.  removoir 
  remouvoir  L.  removere,  remotum  pref.  re-  re-  +  movere  to 
  move  See  {Move}.] 
  1.  To  move  away  from  the  position  occupied;  to  cause  to 
  change  place  to  displace;  as  to  remove  a  building. 
 
  Thou  shalt  not  remove  thy  neighbor's  landmark. 
  --Deut.  xix. 
  14. 
 
  When  we  had  dined,  to  prevent  the  ladies'  leaving 
  us  I  generally  ordered  the  table  to  be  removed. 
  --Goldsmith. 
 
  2.  To  cause  to  leave  a  person  or  thing  to  cause  to  cease  to 
  be  to  take  away  hence  to  banish;  to  destroy;  to  put  an 
  end  to  to  kill;  as  to  remove  a  disease.  ``King  Richard 
  thus  removed.''  --Shak. 
 
  3.  To  dismiss  or  discharge  from  office;  as  the  President 
  removed  many  postmasters. 
 
  Note:  See  the  Note  under  {Remove},  v.  i. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  removed 
  adj  1:  taken  out  of  or  separated  from  "possibility 
  is...achievability,  abstracted  from  achievement"- 
  A.N.Whitehead  [syn:  {abstracted}] 
  2:  far  distant  in  space;  "distant  lands";  "remote  stars";  "a 
  remote  outpost  of  civilization";  "a  hideaway  far  removed 
  from  towns  and  cities"  [syn:  {distant},  {remote}] 
  3:  far  apart  in  nature;  "considerations  entirely  removed  (or 
  remote)  from  politics"  [syn:  {remote},  {removed(p)}] 
  4:  separated  in  relationship  by  a  given  degree  of  descent;  "a 
  cousin  once  removed"  [syn:  {removed(p)}] 
  5:  far  distant  in  time;  "distant  events";  "the  remote  past  or 
  future";  "a  civilization  ten  centuries  removed  from  modern 
  times"  [syn:  {distant},  {remote}] 

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