DISTANT Copy link • DISTANTRemote in place and time, amotus: disjunctus (separated by an interval; e.g., procul a barbaris gentibus): remotus (remote, lying separate): longinquus (being far off): ultimus (lying at an extreme point; Vid: Held., Caes., B.G., 3, 27; e.g., ultimae atque extremae gentes). ☞ Not dissitus. Muretus uses regiones dissitae, well Ruhnken justly censures. To be distant, distare, abesse a (ab), etc. (with this difference, that distare refers to the interval, the two extremities being of equal importance; abesse gives prominence to the point from which anything is separated. Distare is not used of persons, and has always the measure of the distance added): a distant relationship, amplissima cognatio: there is a distant relationship between persons, longinqua cognatione contingere aliquem. Reserved; Vid :