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<blockquote>I hope your modesty Will know what <b>distance</b> to the crown is due. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>'T is by respect and <b>distance</b> that authority is upheld. <i>Atterbury.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>10.</b> <def>A withholding of intimacy; alienation; coldness; disagreement; variance; restraint; reserve.</def>

<blockquote>Setting them [factions] at <b>distance</b>, or at least distrust amongst themselves. <i>Bacon.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>On the part of Heaven, Now alienated, <b>distance</b> and distaste. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>11.</b> <def>Remoteness in succession or relation; <as>as, the <ex>distance</ex> between a descendant and his ancestor</as>.</def>

<p><b>12.</b> <fld>(Mus.)</fld> <def>The interval between two notes; <as>as, the <ex>distance</ex> of a fourth or seventh</as>.</def>

<cs><col>Angular distance</col>, <cd>the distance made at the eye by lines drawn from the eye to two objects.</cd> -- <col>Lunar distance</col>. <cd>See under <er>Lunar</er>.</cd> -- <col>North polar distance</col> <fld>(Astron.)</fld>, <cd>the distance on the heavens of a heavenly body from the north pole. It is the complement of the declination.</cd> -- <col>Zenith distance</col> <fld>(Astron.)</fld>, <cd>the arc on the heavens from a heavenly body to the zenith of the observer. It is the complement of the altitude.</cd> -- <col>To keep one's distance</col>, <cd>to stand aloof; to refrain from familiarity.</cd></cs>

<blockquote>If a man makes <b>keep my distance</b>, the comfort is he keeps his at the same time. <i>Swift.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Distance</h1> <Xpage=434>

<hw>Dis"tance</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Distanced</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Distancing</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To place at a distance or remotely.</def>

<blockquote>I heard nothing thereof at Oxford, being then miles <b>distanced</b> thence. <i>Fuller.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To cause to appear as if at a distance; to make seem remote.</def>

<blockquote>His peculiar art of <b>distancing</b> an object to aggrandize his space. <i>H. Miller.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To outstrip by as much as a distance (see <er>Distance</er>, <tt>n.</tt>, 3); to leave far behind; to surpass greatly.</def>

<blockquote>He <b>distanced</b> the most skillful of his contemporaries. <i>Milner.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Distancy</h1> <Xpage=434>

<hw>Dis"tan*cy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Distance.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Dr. H. More.</i>

<h1>Distant</h1> <Xpage=434>

<hw>Dis"tant</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[F., fr. L. <ets>distans</ets>, <ets>-antis</ets>, p. pr. of <ets>distare</ets> to stand apart, be separate or distant; <ets>dis-</ets> + <ets>stare</ets> to stand. See <er>Stand</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Separated; having an intervening space; at a distance; away.</def>

<blockquote>One board had two tenons, equally <b>distant</b>. <i>Ex. xxxvi. 22.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Diana's temple is not <b>distant</b> far. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Far separated; far off; not near; remote; -- in place, time, consanguinity, or connection; <as>as, <ex>distant</ex> times; <ex>distant</ex> relatives.</as></def>

<blockquote>The success of these <b>distant</b> enterprises. <i>Prescott.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Reserved or repelling in manners; cold; not cordial; somewhat haughty; <as>as, a <ex>distant</ex> manner</as>.</def>