Emily Dickinson Lexicon

RE-MOTE', a. [L. remotus, removeo; re and moveo, to move.]

1. Distant in place; not near; as, a remote country; a remote people. Give me a life remote from guilty courts. – Granville.
2. Distant in time, past or future; as, remote antiquity. Every man is apt to think the time of his dissolution to be remote.
3. Distant; not immediate. It is not all remote and even apparent good that affects us. – Locke.
4. Distant; primary; not proximate; as, the remote causes of a disease.
5. Alien; foreign; not agreeing with; as, a proposition remote from reason. – Locke.
6. Abstracted; as, the mind placed by thought amongst or remote from all bodies. – Locke.
7. Distant in consanguinity or affinity; as, a remote kinsman.
8. Slight; inconsiderable; as, a remote analogy between cases; a remote resemblance in form or color.