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Webster 1913 Edition

Remote

Re-mote′

(r?-m?t′)
,
Adj.
[
Com
par.
Remoter
(-?r)
;
sup
erl.
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.
Shakespeare
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
,
Noun.

Webster 1828 Edition

Remote

REMO'TE

,
Adj.
[L. remotus, removeo; re and moveo, to move.]
1.
Distant in place; not near; as a remote country; a remote people.
Give me a life remote from guilty courts.
2.
Distant in time, past or future; as remote antiquity. Every man is apt to think the time of his dissolution to be remote.
3.
Distant; not immediate.
It is not all remote and even apparent good that affects us.
4.
Distant; primary; not proximate; as the remote causes of a disease.
5.
Alien; foreign; not agreeing with; as a proposition remote from reason.
6.
Abstracted; as the mind placed by thought amongst or remote from all bodies.
7.
Distant in consanguinity or affinity; as a remote kinsman.
8.
Slight; inconsiderable; as a remote analogy between cases; a remote resemblance is form or color.

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