distributive
adjective
serving to distribute, assign, allot, or divide; characterized by or pertaining to distribution.
distributively
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a word derived from
distributive.
Example Sentences
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Now undoubtedly finite things, taken distributively, have contradictory attributes, but not as a class.
From John Stuart Mill; His Life and Works Twelve Sketches by Herbert Spencer, Henry Fawcett, Frederic Harrison, and Other Distinguished Authors by Henry Fawcett
But when we say 'All men are all rational animals,' the predicate no longer applies to the subject distributively, but only collectively.
From Deductive Logic by St. George William Joseph Stock
Either the whole people taken collectively must rule the same whole taken distributively, or a part must rule the rest.
From Moral Philosophy by Joseph Rickaby, S.J.
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 St. George William Joseph Stock
But the gratuitous graces would seem to be certain participations, bestowed distributively and particularly upon divers subjects, according to 1 Cor.
From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas
