distributed term

British

noun

logic a term applying equally to every member of the class it designates, as doctors in no doctors are overworked

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Wherefore I say that "all," the symbol of the universal which is implied in "whatsoever," is never distributed beyond the scope of the distributed term.

From A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance by Ogg, Frederic Austin

The universal "everything" which is included in "whatever" is not distributed beyond the extent of the distributed term.

From Dante. An essay. To which is added a translation of De Monarchia. by Church, R. W. (Richard William)

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