*remote*

a. More remote in previous time or prior order. [ 1913 Webster ]

In some cases two more links of causation may be introduced; one of them may be termed the preremote cause, the other the postremote effect. E. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Remoter superl. Remotest. ] [ L. remotus, p. p. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Places remote enough are in Bohemia. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Remote from men, with God he passed his days. Parnell. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Bot.) Separated by intervals greater than usual. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Re*mote"ly, adv. -- Re*mote"ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]