Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Distant

Distant , adjective

[French, from Latin distans, -antis, present participle of distare to stand apart, be separate or distant; dis- + stare to stand. See Stand.]

1.
Separated; having an intervening space; at a distance; away.
One board had two tenons, equally distant. — Ex. xxxvi. 22
Diana's temple is not distant far. — Shakespeare
2.
Far separated; far off; not near; remote; -- in place, time, consanguinity, or connection; as, distant times; distant relatives.
The success of these distant enterprises. — Prescott
3.
Reserved or repelling in manners; cold; not cordial; somewhat haughty; as, a distant manner.
He passed me with a distant bow. — Goldsmith
4.
Indistinct; faint; obscure, as from distance.
Some distant knowledge. — Shakespeare
A distant glimpse. — W. Irving
5.
Not conformable; discrepant; repugnant; as, a practice so widely distant from Christianity.