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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Furthermore, it is fallacious to think that because something is true of each member of a class taken distributively, the same thing holds true of the class taken collectively.
From Practical Argumentation by George K. Pattee
Further, the collective name can be predicated only of the whole group, as a whole; the general name is predicable of each, distributively.
From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by William Minto
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 St. George William Joseph Stock
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 Thomas W. Allies
He would still talk of the H and O distributively, merely noting that they acted now in the new position H-O-H.
From A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy by William James
