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A remote relation. See Quater-cousin. Shak.

A medicine that promotes alvine discharges; a purge; a purgative of moderate activity.

That which promotes good spirits or cheerfulness; provisions prepared for a feast; entertainment; as, a table loaded with good cheer.

To hold dear; to embrace with interest; to indulge; to encourage; to foster; to promote; as, to cherish religious principle. To cherish virtue and humanity. Burke.

A descendant, however remote; -- used esp. in the plural; as, the children of Israel; the children of Edom.

A tube usually of glass, placed around a flame, as of a lamp, to create a draft, and promote combustion.

An agent which promotes the discharge of bile from the system.

Tending to promote the formation of a cicatrix; good for healing of a wound.

A medicine or application that promotes the healing of a sore or wound, or the formation of a cicatrix.

One who joins or promotes a coalition; one who advocates coalition.

Of the same age; existing during the same period of time, especially time long and remote; -- usually followed by with. Silence! coeval with eternity! Pope. Oaks coeval spread a mournful shade. Cowper.

Distant; -- said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed.

One who promotes or establishes a colony; a colonist. Bancroft.

A company of people transplanted from their mother country to a remote province or country, and remaining subject to the jurisdiction of the parent state; as, the British colonies in America. The first settlers of New England were the best of Englishmen, well educated, devout Christians, and zealous lovers of liberty.…

In a manner to promote. [R.]

Loading or tending; helpful; contributive; tending to promote. However conducive to the good or our country. Addison.

vice or leagues of pleasure. Addison. He hath heard of our confederacy. Shak. Virginia promoted a confederacy. Bancroft.

stately and consequential pace. Sir W. Scott. Consequential damage (Law) (a) Damage so remote as not to be actionable (b) Damage which although remote is actionable. (c) Actionable damage, but not following as an immediate result of an act.

By remote consequence; not immediately; eventually; as, to do a thing consequentially. South.

That which is convenient; that which promotes comfort or advantage; that which is suited to one's wants; an accommodation. A pair of spectacles and several other little conveniences. Swift.