Word Meanings - PREREMOTE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Related words: (words related to PREREMOTE)

• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• TERMER
  One who has an estate for a term of years or for life. (more info) 1. One who resorted to London during the law term only, in order to
• INTRODUCTOR
  An introducer.
• TERMONOLOGY
  Terminology.
• OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
  Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
• PRIORSHIP
  The state or office of prior; priorate.
• TERMINOLOGY
  1. The doctrine of terms; a theory of terms or appellations; a treatise on terms. 2. The terms actually used in any business, art, science, or the like; nomenclature; technical terms; as, the terminology of chemistry. The barbarous effect produced
• LINKS
  A tract of ground laid out for the game of golf; a golfing green. A second links has recently been opened at Prestwick, and another at Troon, on the same coast. P. P. Alexander.
• CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
  Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
• PREVIOUSNESS
  The quality or state of being previous; priority or antecedence in time.
• EFFECTUOSE; EFFECTUOUS
  Effective. B. Jonson.
• POSTREMOTE
  More remote in subsequent time or order.
• TERMA
  The terminal lamina, or thin ventral part, of the anterior wall of the third ventricle of the brain. B. G. Wilder.
• PREREMOTE
  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.
• TERMES
  A genus of Pseudoneuroptera including the white ants, or termites. See Termite.
• TERMINATOR
  The dividing line between the illuminated and the unilluminated part of the moon. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, terminates.
• TERMINATIONAL
  Of or pertaining to termination; forming a termination.
• OTHER
  Either; -- used with other or or for its correlative (as either . . . or are now used). Other of chalk, other of glass. Chaucer.
• CAUSATIONIST
  One who believes in the law of universal causation.
• INTRODUCEMENT
  Introduction.
• NOTOTHERIUM
  An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
• CLINKSTONE
  An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite.
• ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
  Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n.
• INTERMURE
  To wall in; to inclose. Ford.
• SMOTHER
  Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
• INTERMEDDLE
  To meddle with the affairs of others; to meddle officiously; to interpose or interfere improperly; to mix or meddle with. The practice of Spain hath been, by war and by conditions of treaty, to intermeddle with foreign states. Bacon. Syn. -- To
• ISOTHEROMBROSE
  A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall.
• INTERMUTATION
  Interchange; mutual or reciprocal change.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• FESTERMENT
  A festering. Chalmers.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• INTERMINATED
  Interminable; interminate; endless; unending. Akenside.
• UNMOTHERED
  Deprived of a mother; motherless.
• FLITTERMOUSE
  A bat; -- called also flickermouse, flindermouse, and flintymouse.