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In old English law, a court, or mote, held in a port town. [Obs.] Blackstone.

More remote in subsequent time or order.

Previous motion or excitement to action.

More remote in previous time or prior order. 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.

hat is in course); to forward; to further; to encourage; to advance; to excite; as, to promote learning; to promote disorder; to promote a business venture. "Born to promote all truth." Milton.

One who, or that which, forwards, advances, or promotes; an encourager; as, a promoter of charity or philosophy. Boyle.

The act of promoting, advancing, or encouraging; the act of exalting in rank or honor; also, the condition of being advanced, encouraged, or exalted in honor; preferment. Milton. Promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. Ps. lxxv. 6.

Tending to advance, promote, or encourage. Hume.

Of or pertaining to movement produced by action of the mind or will.

An apparatus for producing artificial respiration by pumping oxygen or air or a mixture of the two into and out of the lungs, as of a person who has been asphyxiated by drowning, breathing poisonous gases, or the like, or of one who has been stunned by an electrical shock.

Accumulation of air, or other gas, and of pus, in the pleural cavity.

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.

The act of removing; removal. [Obs.] This remotion of the duke and her Is practice only. Shak.

Any apparatus by which an electrical current is originated. [R.]

Causing secretion; -- said of nerves which go to glands and influence secretion.

Motion given by inherent power, without external impulse; spontaneus or voluntary motion. Matter is not induced with self-motion. Cheyne.

A series-wound motor.

An auxiliary motor, regulated by a hand lever, for quickly and easily moving the reversing gear of a large marine engine into any desired position indicated by that of the hand lever, which controls the valve of the motor.

imp. (and rare p. p.) of Smite.

Dirty foul. [Obs.] Chaucer.