distantial

English

Adjective

distantial (comparative more distantial, superlative most distantial)

1. (obsolete) Distant.
   • 1648, Walter Montagu, “The Tenth Treatise. How a Good Conscience, and a Good Courtier are Consortable. §. VI. Some Notorious Errors Remarked, & what Facility the Breeding of Courtiers may Bring towards an Excellence in Religious Duties, Proved by Examples.”, in Miscellanea Spiritualia: Or, Devout Essaies, London: […] W[illiam] Lee, D[aniel] Pakeman, and G[abriel] Bedell, […], →OCLC, page 120:

     [S]uch objects of virtue are more impreſſive upon or affections, then thoſe vvhich may be greater in themſelves, but more diſtantiall from our eye; […]

2. Pertaining to distance.
   • 1885 July 4, T. Oughton, “On the Secondary Nature of Monocular Relief”, in The Lancet, volume 2, page 9:

     In order for the hypothesis to cover this fact, it would be indispensable that such objects should subtend a uniform visual angle at every distance, and that they do not do so is proof that an element has been introduced which may regulate distantial perception.

   • 1907 October, A.C. Dewar, “Speed in Battleship Strategy”, in The United Service Magazine, volume 157, number 947, page 2:

     The distantial function of speed can, to a great exten , be supplemented or entirely replaced by position, but this is not the case with the combative.

   • 2017, Hans Bernhard Schmid, Gerhard Thonhauser, From Conventionalism to Social Authenticity, page 25:

     Finally, a public setting puts more emphasis on working smoothly with other individuals than on a rich engagement with the affordances of the world (thus reinforcing the distantial tendency).

3. (mathematics) Pertaining to the difference between items.

   the distantial spread

   distantial transformation

   • 1860, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, A Syllabus of Plane Algebraical Geometry:

     Hence, given the referents of a point, referred to a distantial system, and the Cartesian equations of the lines of reference, referred to a Cartesian system:

   • 2021, Salah Eddine Boukhetta, Christophe Demko, Karell Bertet, Jérémy Richard, Cécile Cayèré, “Temporal Sequence Mining Using FCA and GALACTIC”, in Tanya Braun, Marcel Gehrke, Tom Hanika, editors, Graph-Based Representation and Reasoning, page 197:

     We defined a distantial description that describes a set of temporal sequences by their maximal common distantial subsequences, with distances between items.

References

• “distantial”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.