Hypertext Webster Gateway: "remotely"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Remote \Re*mote"\ (r?-m?t"), a. [Compar. {Remoter} (-?r);
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.

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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

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"


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