Re-mōte', a.

a. [comp. REMOTER; superl. REMOTEST.] [Lat. remotus, p. p. of removere, to remove; Sp. remoto, It. remoto, rimoto. See REMOVE.] 1. Removed to a distance; not near; far away;—said in respect to time or place. 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; as, (a.) Not agreeing; alien; foreign. “All these propositions, however remote from reason.” Locke. (b.) Not nearly related; not close; as, a remote connection or consanguinity. (c.) Separate; abstracted. “Whenever the mind places itself by any thought, either amongst or remote from all bodies.” Locke. (d.) Not proximate; primary; distant. “An unadvised transiliency from the effect to the remotest cause.” Granville.