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distributively, adv.|dɪsˈtrɪbjʊtɪvlɪ|
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a distributive manner or sense. a. By way or by means of distribution.
1626T. H. Caussin's Holy Crt. 42 He..distributiuely sowed it, vpon all the creatures of the earth. 1660Milton Free Commw. (1851) 450 Communicating the natural heat of Government and Culture more distributively to all..parts.
b. Law. So as to be distributed between two parties, each obtaining part of his plea.
1848Wharton Law Lex. 187 There are cases in which an issue may be found distributively, i.e. in part for plaintiff and in part for defendant.
c. In relation to each individual of a number separately; opposed to collectively.
1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. xlviii. §12 Wee cannot be free from all sinne collectiuely..yet distributiuely..all great and grieuous actuall offences..may and ought to be..auoyded. 1652T. Whitfield Doctr. Armin. 66 The word all is here to bee taken not distributively for every particular man, but collectively for all sorts, states, and conditions of men. 1697tr. Burgersdicius his Logic ii. xxvi. 123 This Fallacy consists in the Word All, which if Collectively taken, the Major indeed will be true, but the Minor false. If the Word All is taken Distributively, the Major will be false. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. V. xlviii. 75 In Parliament, as the common council, the whole empire was represented collectively, though not distributively. 1889Illingworth Probl. Pain in Lux Mundi (ed. 10) 114 The mass of animal suffering..is felt distributively. No one animal suffers more because a million suffer likewise.
d. Logic. In a sense in which the term is applied to each and every individual of a class. See distribution 4 b.
1773E. Bentham Introd. Logick ii. i. 39 The predicate of the former (Six) is affirmed of all the Planets taken collectively: that of the latter (opake Bodies) is affirmed distributively. 1834Whately Elem. Logic (ed. 5) III. §ii. 215 The middle term is used in one Premiss collectively, in the other, distributively. 1843Mill Logic i. iv. §4. 114 When a general name stands for each and every individual which it is a name of, or in other words, which it denotes, it is said by logicians to be distributed, or taken distributively. 1864Bowen Logic v. §2 (1870) 121 A Universal Judgment is one in which the Predicate is affirmed of the whole Subject taken distributively. Thus all men (i.e. each and every man) are mortal. |