Hypertext Webster Gateway: "removed"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Removed \Re*moved"\ (r?-m??vd"), a.
1. Changed in place.
2. Dismissed from office.
3. Distant in location; remote. ``Something finer than you
could purchase in so removed a dwelling.'' --Shak.
4. Distant by degrees in relationship; as, a cousin once
removed. -- {Re*mov"ed*ness} (r?-m??v"?d-n?s), n. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Remove \Re*move"\ (r?-m??v"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Removed}
(-m??vd"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Removing}.] [OF. removoir,
remouvoir, L. removere, remotum; pref. re- re- + movere to
move. See {Move}.]
1. To move away from the position occupied; to cause to
change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.
Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark.
--Deut. xix.
14.
When we had dined, to prevent the ladies' leaving
us, I generally ordered the table to be removed.
--Goldsmith.
2. To cause to leave a person or thing; to cause to cease to
be; to take away; hence, to banish; to destroy; to put an
end to; to kill; as, to remove a disease. ``King Richard
thus removed.'' --Shak.
3. To dismiss or discharge from office; as, the President
removed many postmasters.
Note: See the Note under {Remove}, v. i.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
removed
adj 1: taken out of or separated from; "possibility
is...achievability, abstracted from achievement"-
A.N.Whitehead [syn: {abstracted}]
2: far apart in nature; "considerations entirely removed (or
remote) from politics" [syn: {remote}, {removed(p)}]
3: far distant in space; "distant lands"; "remote stars"; "a
remote outpost of civilization"; "a hideaway far removed
from towns and cities" [syn: {distant}, {remote}]
4: separated in relationship by a given degree of descent; "a
cousin once removed" [syn: {removed(p)}]
5: far distant in time; "distant events"; "the remote past or
future"; "a civilization ten centuries removed from modern
times" [syn: {distant}, {remote}]
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