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distanced, ppl. a.|ˈdɪstənst|
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
1. a. Put or set at a distance; remote, distant. Now only fig.
1654tr. Scudery's Curia Pol. 135 Alexander the Great commanded Subjects (though remote and distanced) in the farthest parts. 1668H. More Div. Dial. iii. xxviii. 481 The distanced Singing of the chearful Birds. 1672― Brief Reply 91 In many thousand far distanced places at once. 1949Koestler Insight & Outlook xix. 267 Interest becomes disinterested, as it were, distanced, almost completely detached from the aims of the original drive. 1962W. Nowottny Lang. Poets Use iv. 79 We take in the language of the last quatrain, so distanced from the language of common life, without recoil.
†b. At variance, differing in opinion. Obs.
1644J. Goodwin Innoc. Triumph. (1645) 54 Persons, not onely distanced in their judgements about Church-Government, but about the God-head of Christ.
2. a. Left behind, outstripped as in a race.
1713Gay Fan Poems 1745 I. 31 The bounding damsel flies, Strains to the goal, the distanc'd lover dies. 1715–20Pope Iliad xi. 200 Still slaughtering on, the king of men proceeds; The distanced army wonders at his deeds.
b. Horse-racing. Beaten by a distance: see distance n. 5 c.
1737Bracken Farriery Impr. (1757) II. 168 When they happen'd to ride a distanc'd Horse. 1870D. P. Blaine Encycl. Rur. Sports iii. iv. 363 A distanced horse cannot start again. |