distantiate

distantiate (third-person singular simple present distantiates, present participle distantiating, simple past and past participle distantiated)

1. To distance (to put or keep at a literal or metaphorical or mental distance).
   • 1610, Folkingham, Art of Survey, II. v. 55:

     Extend from some fewe Maine Angls Base lines for Boundaries […] and from conuenient distances in the same, distantiate euery By.

   • 1884, Gustaf Lindström, On the Silurian Gastropoda and Pteropoda of Gotland, page 167:

     It deviates, however, in having the coils more distantiated.

   • 2005, Gary Bridge, Reason in the City of Difference: Pragmatism, Communicative Action and Contemporary Urbanism, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 9:

     If cities are more and more decentralized and distantiated, emergent and networked, full of automatic activities and surface manifestations[,] this works against the rational city in a number of ways.

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