remonstratory 
remonstratory (re-mon'stra-to-ri), it. [< re- 
monstrate + -on/.] Expostulatory ; remon- 
strative. [Rare.] 
"Come, come, Sikes," said the Jew, appealing to him in 
a rcmonstratvry tone. Die/tern, Oliver Twist, ivi. 
remontant (re-mon'tant), a. and n. [< F. re- 
montant, ppr. of remonter, remount: see re- 
mount.'} I. a. In liort., blooming a second 
time late in the season : noting a class of roses. 
The Baronne Prevost, which is now the oldest type 
among hybrid remontant roses. The Century, XXVI. 86ft 
II. w. In liort., a hybrid perpetual rose which 
blooms twice in a season. 
Beautiful white roses, whose places have not been filled 
by any of the usurping remontant!. 
The Century, XXVI. 350. 
remontoir (re-mon-twor'), n. [< F. remontoir, 
< remonter, wind up: see remount.'] In horol., 
a kind of escapement in which a uniform im- 
pulse is given to the pendulum or balance by 
a special contrivance upon which the train 
of wheel-work acts, instead of communicating 
directly with the pendulum or balance. 
remora (rem'o-ra), n. [= F. remora, remore = 
Sp. remora = Pg. It. remora, < L. remora, a de- 
lay, hindrance, also the fish echeneis, the suck- 
ing-fish (cf. remorari, stay, delay), < re-, back, 
+ mom, delay, the fish echeneis (see Echeneis).] 
If. Delay; obstacle; hindrance. 
A gentle answer is an excellent remora to the progresses 
of anger, whether in thyself or others. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1836X I. 214. 
We had his promise to stay for us, but the remora's and 
disappointments we met with in the Boad had put us 
backward in our Journey. 
MauiidreU, Aleppo to Jerusalem, p. 46. 
2. (a) The sucking-fish, Echeneis remora, or 
any fish of the family Echeneididse, having on 
the top of the head a flattened oval adhesive sur- 
face by means of which it can attach itself firm- 
ly to various objects, as another fish, a ship's 
bottom, etc., but whether for protection or con- 
veyance, or both, has not been satisfactorily 
ascertained. It was formerly believed to have 
the power of delaying or stopping ships. See 
cuts under Echeneis and Shombochirus. (b) 
[cap.] [NL. (Gill, 1862).] A genus of such 
fishes, based on the species above-named. 
All sodainely there clove unto her keele 
A little flsh, that men call Remora, 
Which stopt her course. 
Spenser, Worlds Vanitie, L 108. 
I am seized on here 
By a land remora; I cannot stir. 
Nor move, but as he pleases. 
B. Jonson, Poetaster, ill. 1. 
3. In med., a stoppage or stagnation, as of the 
blood. 4. In surg., an instrument to retain 
parts in place: uotnowinuse. 5. In Aer.,aser- 
pent : rare, confined to certain modern blazons. 
remoratet (rem'o-rat), v. t. [< L. remoratus, 
pp. of remorari, stay, linger, delay,-hiuder, de- 
fer, < re-, back, + morari, delay. Cf. remora.] 
To hinder ; delay. Imp. Diet. 
remorcet, w. An obsolete spelling of remorse. 
remordt (re-m6rd'), v. [< ME. remorden, < OF. 
remordre, F. remordre = Pr. remordre = Cat. re- 
mordir = Sp. Pg. remorder = It. rimordere, < L. 
remordere, vex, disturb, lit. 'bite again,' < re-, 
again, + mordere, bite: see mordant. Cf. re- 
morse."} I. trans. 1. To strike with remorse ; 
touch with compassion. 
Ye shul dullen of the rudenesse 
Of us sely Trojans, but if routhe 
Remorde yow, or vertu of youre trouthe. 
Chaucer, Troilus, iv. 1481. 
2. To afflict. 
God . . . remoi-dith Born folk by adversite. 
Chaucer, Boethius, iv. 6. 
3. To rebuke. 
Noght enere-ilke man that cales the lorde, 
Or mercy askes, sal hafe thi Wise, 
His consciencs hot he remorde, 
And wirke thi wil, & mende his lyfe. 
Political Poems, etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 108. 
Rebukynge and remordyng, 
And nothynge accordynge. 
Skelton, Against the Scots. 
II. intrans. To feel remorse. 
His conscience remording agayne the destruction of so 
noble a prince. Sir T. Elyot, The Governour, ii. 5. 
remordencyt (re-mor'den-si), n. [< "remor- 
den(t) (< L. remorden(t-)s, ppr. of remordere, 
vex : see remord) + -cy.] Compunction ; re- 
morse. 
That remordency of conscience, that extremity of grief, 
they feel within themselves. KUlingbeck, Sermons, p. 176. 
remoret, v. t. [< L. remorari, stay, hinder: see 
remora te.] To check ; hinder. 
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No bargains or accounts to make ; 
Nor Land nor Lease to let or take : 
Or if we had, should that remore us, 
When all the world 's our own before us? 
Brome, Jovial Crew, i. 
remorse (re-m6rs'), H. [Formerly also retnorce; 
< ME. reniors, < OF. remors, F. remorde = Pg. 
remorso = It. rimorso, < LL. remorsus, remorse, 
< L. remordere, pp. remorsus, vex : see remord.] 
1. Intense and painful regret due to a con- 
sciousness of guilt ; the pain of a guilty con- 
science; deep regret with self-condemnation. 
The Remorse for his [King Richard's) Undutifnlness 
towards his Father was living in him till he died. 
Baker, Chronicles, p. 67. 
It is natural for a man to feel especial remorse at his sins 
when he first begins to think of religion ; he ought to feel 
bitter sorrow and keen repentance. 
J. H. Newman, Parochial Sermons, i. 182. 
We have her own confession at full length, 
Made in the first remorse. 
Browning, Ring and Book, I. 104. 
2f. Sympathetic sorrow; pity; compassion. 
"Pity," she cries, "some favour, some remorse!" 
Shak., Venus and Adonis, 1. 257. 
I am too merciful, I find it, friends, 
Of too soft a nature, to be an officer ; 
I bear too much remorse. 
Fletcher (and another 7), Prophetess, ill. 2. 
= Syn. 1. Compunction, Regret, etc. (see repentance), self- 
reproach, self-condemnation, anguish, stlngsof conscience. 
remorsedt (re-mdrsf), a. [< remorse + -erf*.] 
Feeling remorse or compunction. 
The remorsed sinner begins first with the tender of burnt 
offerings. /;//. Hall, Contemplations (ed. Tegg), V. 169. 
remorseful (re-m6rs'ful), a. [Formerly also re- 
morceful; < remorse + -ful.] 1. Full of re- 
morse; impressed with a sense of guilt. 2f. 
Compassionate ; feeling tenderly. 
He was none of these remrrrseful men, 
Gentle and affable ; but fierce at all times, and mad then. 
Chapman, Iliad, \\. 
St. Causing compassion ; pitiable. 
Eurylochus straight hasted the report 
Of this his fellowes most remorceful fate. 
CAajnnan, Odyssey, x. 
=Syn. 1. See repentance. 
remorsefully (re-mors'ful-i), adv. In a remorse- 
ful manner. 
remorsefulness (re-mors'ful-ues), n. The state 
of being remorseful. 
remorseless (re-mors'les), a. [Formerly also 
remorceless; < remorse + -less.] Without re- 
morse ; unpitying; cruel; insensible to distress. 
Women are soft, mild, pitiful, and flexible ; 
Thou stern, obdurate, flinty, rough, remorseless. 
Shalt., 3 Hen. VI., i 4. 142. 
Atropos for Lucina came, 
And with remorseless cruelty 
Spoil'd at once both fruit and tree. 
Milton, Epitaph on M. of Win., L 29. 
Syn. Pitiless, merciless, ruthless, relentless, unrelent- 
ing, savage. 
remorselessly (re-mors'les-li), adv. In a re- 
morseless manner; without remorse, 
remorselessness (re-mors'les-nes), n. The state 
or quality of being remorseless; insensibility 
to distress. 
remote (re-mot'), . [< ME. remote, < OF. remot, 
m., remote, t., = Sp. Pg. remote = It. remote, 
rimoto, < L. remotus, pp. of removere, remove: 
see remove.] 1. Distant in place; not near; 
far removed: as, a remote country; a remote 
people. 
Here oon [tree], there oon to leve a fer remote 
I holde is goode. 
Palladius, Hnsbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 150. 
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow, 
Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po. 
Goldsmith, Traveller, 1. 1. 
2. Distant or far away, in any sense, (a) Distant 
in time, past or future : as, remote antiquity. 
It is not all remote and even apparent good that affects 
us. Locke. 
The hour conceal'd, and so remote the fear, 
Death still draws nearer, never seeming near. 
Pope, Essay on Man, iii. 75. 
When remote futurity is brought 
Before the keen inquiry of her thought. 
Coirper, Table-Talk, L 492. 
Some say that gleams of a remoter world 
Visit the soul in sleep. Shelley, Mont Blanc, iii. 
Do we not know that what is remote and indefinite af- 
fects men far less than what is near and certain? 
Macaulay, Disabilities of Jews. 
(6) Mediate; by intervention of something else ; not proxi- 
mate. 
From the effect to the remotest cause. GranmUe. 
Their nimble nonsense takes a shorter course, . . . 
And gains remote conclusions at a jump. 
Cowper, Conversation, 1. 154. 
The animal has sympathy, and is moved by sympathetic 
impulses, but these are never altruistic; the ends are 
never remote. 
0. H. Lewes, Probs. of Life and Mind, I. ii. 61. 
remount 
(c) Alien ; foreign ; not agreeing : as, a proposition remote 
from reason, (d) Separated ; abstracted. 
As nothing ought to be more in our wishes, so nothing 
seems more remote from our hopes, than the Universal 
Peace of the Christian World. 
Stillingfleet, Sermons, II. vl. 
These small waves raised by the evening wind are as 
remote from storm as the smooth reflecting surface. 
Thoreau, Walden, p. 140. 
Wherever the mind places itself by any thought, either 
amongst or remote from all bodies, it can in this uniform 
idea of space nowhere find any bounds. 
Locke, Human Understanding, II. xvii. 4. 
(e) Distant in consanguinity or affinity : as, a remote kins- 
man. (.;) Slight; inconsiderable; not closely connected ; 
having slight relation : as, a remote analogy between cases ; 
a remote resemblance in form or color ; specifically, in the 
laic of evidence, having too slight a*bearing upon the ques- 
tion in controversy to afford any ground for inference, (a) 
In mime, having but slight relation. See relation, 8. (A) 
In zool. and bot., distant from one another; few or sparse, 
as spots on a surface, etc. Remote cause, the cause of 
a cause ; a cause which contributes to the production of 
the effect by the concurrence of another cause of the 
same kind. Remote key. Seefcj/i. Remote matter, 
(at) In metaph., matter unprepared for the reception of 
any particular form, (b) In logic: (1) The terms of a 
syllogism, as contradistinguished from the propositions, 
which latter are the immediate matter. (2) Terms of a 
proposition which are of such a nature that it is impossi- 
ble that one should be true of the other. 
When Is a proposition said to consist of matter remote 
or unnatural? When the predicat agreeth no manner of 
way with the subject : as, a man is a horse. 
Kundeville, Arte of Logicke (1599), Hi. 3. 
Remote mediate mark. See marii. Remote possi- 
bility, In law. See possibility, 3. 
remotedt, a. [< remote + -ed 2 .] Removed; 
distant. 
I must now go wander like a Caine 
In forraigne Countries and remoted climes. 
Ueyaood, Woman Killed with Kindness. 
remotely (re-mot'li), adv. In a remote manner, 
(a) At a distance in space or time ; not nearly, (b) Not 
proxlmately ; not directly : as, remotely connected, (e) 
Slightly ; in a small degree : as, to be remotely affected by 
an event. 
remoteness (re-mot'nes), . 1. The state of 
being remote, in any sense. 2. In the law of 
conveyancing, a ground of objection to the va- 
lidity of an estate in real property, attempted 
to be created, but not created in such manner 
as to take effect within the time prescribed by 
law (computed with reference to a life or lives 
in being), so that, if carried into effect, it would 
protract the inalienability of land against the 
policy of the law. See perpetuity. 
remotion (re-mo'shon), n. [< OF. "remotioti 
= Sp. remocion = Pg. remocao = It. rimozione, 
< L. remotio(n-), a removing, removal, < re- 
movere, pp. remotus, remove: see remove, re- 
mote.] If. The act of removing; removal. 
This act persuades me 
That this remotion of the duke and her 
Is practice only. Shak., Lear, ii. 4. 115. 
2. The state of being remote; remoteness. 
[Rare.] 
The sort of idealized life life in a state of remotion, 
unrealized, and translated into a neutral world of high 
cloudy antiquity which the tragedy of Athens demanded 
for its atmosphere. De Quincey, Theory of Greek Tragedy. 
remotivet (re-mo'tiv), a. [< remote + -ivc.] 
Removing, in the sense of declaring impossible. 
Remotive proposition, in logic, a proposition which 
declares a relation to be impossible : thus, to say that a 
man Is blind is only privative, but to say that a statue is 
incapable of seeing is remotice. 
remould, v. t. See remold. 
remount (re-mount'), v. [< ME. remounten, < 
OF. (and F.) remonter, mount again, reascend, 
F. remonter, mount again, furnish again, wind 
again, etc., = Sp. Pg. remontar = It. rimontare, 
< ML. remontare, mount again, < re-, again, + 
montare, mount: see mount?, v.] I. trans. To 
mount again or anew, in any sense. 
So peyned the! that were with kynge Arthur that the! 
haue nym remounted on his horse. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), i. 119. 
One man takes to pieces the syringes which have just 
been used, burns the leathers, disinfects the metal parts, 
and sends them to the instrument-maker to be remounted. 
Nineteenth Century, XXIV, 853. 
H. intrans. 1. To mount again; reascend; 
specifically, to mount ahorse again. 
He, backe returning by the Yvorie dore, 
Remounted up as light as chearefull Larke. 
Spenser, . Q., I. i. 44. 
Stout Cymon soon remounts, and cleft in two 
His rival's head. Dryden, Cym. and Iph., 1. 600. 
2. To go back, as in order of time or of reason- 
ing. 
The shortest and the surest way of arriving at real 
knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, 
to remount to first principles, and take nobody's word 
about them. BMngbrotce, Idea of a Patriot King. 
