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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

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.

Adj.

[pre and remote.] 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.