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Lying apart. [Obs.] Lands far dissite and remote asunder. Holland.

Remote from the point of attachment or origin; as, the distal end of a bone or muscle; -- opposed to proximal.

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.

Far separated; far off; not near; remote; -- in place, time, consanguinity, or connection; as, distant times; distant relatives. The success of these distant enterprises. Prescott.

At a distance; remotely; with reserve.

A medicine to promote sleep; a soporific; an opiate.

From a remoter or higher antiquity. Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former generation. D. Webster.

From a remote time; from an ancestor or predecessor; from one to another in a descending line. A ring the county wears, That downward hath descended in his house, From son to son, some four or five descents. Shak.

A drug, as ergot, which by exciting uterine contractions promotes the expulsion of the contents of the uterus.

A remedy which promotes discharges, as an emetic, or a cathartic.

One who is versed in the theories of, or who advocates and promotes, education.

To raise to a higher station; to promote; as, to elevate to an office, or to a high social position.

An advocate or promoter of emigration.

A medicine that promotes the menstrual discharge.

That which serves to incite, support, promote, or advance, as favor, countenance, reward, etc.; incentive; increase of confidence; as, the fine arts find little encouragement among a rude people. To think of his paternal care, Is a most sweet encouragement to prayer. Byron.

Farthest; remotest; at the very end. Tylor.

To give a claim to; to qualify for, with a direct object of the person, and a remote object of the thing; to furnish with grounds for seeking or claiming with success; as, an officer's talents entitle him to command.

A medicine designed to be snuffed up the nose, to promote discharges of mucus; a sternutatory. Coxe. -- a.

To elevate in rank, dignity, power, wealth, character, or the like; to dignify; to promote; as, to exalt a prince to the throne, a citizen to the presidency. Righteousness exalteth a nation. Prov. xiv. 34. He that humbleth himself shall be exalted. Luke xiv. 11.

The act of excreting. To promote secretion and excretion. Pereira.