Remote
Remote (r?-m?t") , adjective
[Latin remotus, past participle 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.
Remote from men, with God he passed his days.
2.
Hence, removed; not agreeing, according, or being related; -- in various figurative uses.
(a)
Not agreeing; alien; foreign.
(b)
Not nearly related; not close; as, a remote connection or consanguinity.
(c)
Separate; abstracted.
(d)
Not proximate or acting directly; primary; distant.
(e)
Not obvious or sriking; as, a remote resemblance.
All these propositions, how remote soever from reason.
Wherever the mind places itself by any thought, either amongst, or remote from, all bodies.
From the effect to the remotest cause.
3.
(Botany) Separated by intervals greater than usual.