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Because, it was His will that both unities should characterise the particular Churches, to use a school phrase, separately and distributively, but not the whole body, and the sum of these, taken collectively.

From St. Peter, His Name and His Office As set forth in holy scripture by Allies, Thomas W.

It is at least one function of a life-purpose to make life distributively and continuously good.

From The Moral Economy by Perry, Ralph Barton

When we say, 'All men are rational animals,' we have a true general proposition, because the predicate applies to the subject distributively, and not collectively.

From Deductive Logic by Stock, St. George William Joseph

In logic “composition” is the name given to a fallacy of equivocation, where what is true distributively of each member of a class is inferred to be true of the whole class collectively.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" by Various

When it is said 'The plays of Shakspeare cannot be read in a day,' the proposition meets with a very different measure of acceptance according as its subject is understood collectively or distributively.

From Deductive Logic by Stock, St. George William Joseph