Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

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. — Shakespeare
Remote from men, with God he passed his days. — Parnell
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. — Locke
Wherever the mind places itself by any thought, either amongst, or remote from, all bodies. — Locke
From the effect to the remotest cause. — Granville
3.
(Botany) Separated by intervals greater than usual.