Every particle attracts every other with a force . .
. inversely proportioned to the square of the
distance. --Sir I.
Newton.
2. Remoteness of place; a remote place.
Easily managed from a distance. --W. Irving.
'T is distance lends enchantment to the view. --T.
Campbell.
[He] waits at distance till he hears from Cato.
--Addison.
I heard nothing thereof at Oxford, being then miles
distanced thence. --Fuller.
2. To cause to appear as if at a distance; to make seem
remote.
His peculiar art of distancing an object to
aggrandize his space. --H. Miller.
3. To outstrip by as much as a distance (see {Distance}, n.,
3); to leave far behind; to surpass greatly.
He distanced the most skillful of his
contemporaries. --Milner.