2. To remove further off. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
ELONGATE
E*lon"gate, v. i.
Defn: To depart to, or be at, a distance; esp., to recede apparently from the sun, as a planet in its orbit. [R.]
ELONGATE
E*lon"gate, a. Etym: [LL. elongatus.]
Defn: Drawn out at length; elongated; as, an elongate leaf. "An elongate form." Earle.
ELONGATION
E`lon*ga"tion, n. Etym: [LL. elongatio: cf. F. élongation.]
1. The act of lengthening, or the state of being lengthened; protraction; extension. "Elongation of the fibers." Arbuthnot.
2. That which lengthens out; continuation. May not the mountains of Westmoreland and Cumberland be considered as elongations of these two chains Pinkerton.
3. Removal to a distance; withdrawal; a being at a distance; distance. The distant points in the celestial expanse appear to the eye in so small a degree of elongation from one another, as bears no proportion to what is real. Glanvill.
4. (Astron.)