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A meeting of persons for discussion; as, a wardmote in the city of London.

Filled with motes, or fine floating dust; as, the air. "Moted sunbeams." Tennyson.

A composition adapted to sacred words in the elaborate polyphonic church style; an anthem.

A court held in Derbyshire, in England, for deciding controversies between miners. Blount.

See Barmote.

A court or meeting of a burgh or borough; a borough court held three times yearly.

To commove; to disturb; to stir up. [R.] Society being more or less commoted and made uncomfortable. Hawthorne.

To reduce to a lower grade, as in school.

consider and order matters of the commonwealth; also, a local court. [Hist.] To which folkmote they all with one consent Agreed to travel. Spenser.

One who takes part in a folkmote, or local court. [Obs.] Milton.

A meeting; -- used in combination, as, Witenagemote, an assembly of the wise men.

Mnemonics.

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

More remote in subsequent time or order.

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.

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.

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

Dirty foul. [Obs.] Chaucer.