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Definition of Remotests
Remotest 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.
