Definition of remote

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Remote (superl.) Removed to a distance; not near; far away; distant; -- said in respect to time or to place; as, remote ages; remote lands..

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Distance :: Distance (n.) The remoteness or reserve which respect requires; hence, respect; ceremoniousness..
Hint :: Hint (n.) A remote allusion; slight mention; intimation; insinuation; a suggestion or reminder, without a full declaration or explanation; also, an occasion or motive..
Cater-cousin :: Cater-cousin (n.) A remote relation. See Quater-cousin.
Supercrescence :: Superconsequence (n.) Remote consequence.
Mediterranean :: Mediterranean (a.) Inland; remote from the ocean.
Mystical :: Mystical (a.) Remote from or beyond human comprehension; baffling human understanding; unknowable; obscure; mysterious.
Nigh :: Nigh (prep.) Near to; not remote or distant from.
Province :: Province (n.) A country or region, more or less remote from the city of Rome, brought under the Roman government; a conquered country beyond the limits of Italy..
Destine :: Destine (v. t.) To determine the future condition or application of; to set apart by design for a future use or purpose; to fix, as by destiny or by an authoritative decree; to doom; to ordain or preordain; to appoint; -- often with the remoter object preceded by to or for..
Innermost :: Innermost (a.) Farthest inward; most remote from the outward part; inmost; deepest within.
Country :: Country (a.) Pertaining to the regions remote from a city; rural; rustic; as, a country life; a country town; the country party, as opposed to city..
Possibly :: Possibly (adv.) In a possible manner; by possible means; especially, by extreme, remote, or improbable intervention, change, or exercise of power; by a chance; perhaps; as, possibly he may recover..
Remote :: Remote (superl.) Separated by intervals greater than usual.
Modulation :: Modulation (n.) A change of key, whether transient, or until the music becomes established in the new key; a shifting of the tonality of a piece, so that the harmonies all center upon a new keynote or tonic; the art of transition out of the original key into one nearly related, and so on, it may be, by successive changes, into a key quite remote. There are also sudden and unprepared modulations..
Postremote :: Postremote (a.) More remote in subsequent time or order.
Inland :: Inland (a.) Within the land; more or less remote from the ocean or from open water; interior; as, an inland town..
Entitle :: Entitle (v. t.) To give a claim to; to qualify for, with a direct object of the person, and a remote object of the thing; to furnish with grounds for seeking or claiming with success; as, an officer's talents entitle him to command..
Zeugma :: Zeugma (n.) A figure by which an adjective or verb, which agrees with a nearer word, is, by way of supplement, referred also to another more remote; as, hic illius arma, hic currus fuit; where fuit, which agrees directly with currus, is referred also to arma..
Colony :: Colony (n.) A company of people transplanted from their mother country to a remote province or country, and remaining subject to the jurisdiction of the parent state; as, the British colonies in America..
Consequentially :: Consequentially (adv.) By remote consequence; not immediately; eventually; as, to do a thing consequentially..
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