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Re·mote a. [Compar. Remoter superl. Remotest.]
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. --Shak.
Remote from men, with God he passed his days. --Parnell.
2. Hence, removed; not agreeing, according, or being related; -- in various figurative uses. Specifically: (a) Not agreeing; alien; foreign. “All these propositions, how remote soever from reason.” --Locke. (b) Not nearly related; not close; as, a remote connection or consanguinity. (c) Separate; abstracted. “Wherever the mind places itself by any thought, either amongst, or remote from, all bodies.” --Locke. (d) Not proximate or acting directly; primary; distant. “From the effect to the remotest cause.” --Granville. (e) Not obvious or sriking; as, a remote resemblance.
3. Bot. Separated by intervals greater than usual.
-- Re*mote*ly, adv. -- Re*mote*ness, n.
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remotely
adv 1: in a remote manner; "when the measured speech of the chorus
passes over into song the tones are, remotely but
unmistakably, those taught by the orthodox liturgy"
2: to a remote degree; "it is remotely possible"