distributivelyadv.
/dɪsˈtrɪbjʊtɪvli/ In a distributive manner or sense.
a. By way or by means of distribution.
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the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > [adverb]
out1535
distributively1626
dispensinglya1641
1626 T. Hawkins tr. N. Caussin Holy Court I. i. 42 He..distributiuely sowed it, vpon all the creatures of the earth.
1660 J. Milton Readie Way Free Commonw. (ed. 2) 98 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.
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1848 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon 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.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > [adverb] > individually (not collectively)
sunderlyeOE
sundryOE
sundrilyOE
sunderlepesOE
serelepesc1175
serelya1375
severinglya1390
sunderlingc1390
properlya1393
serea1400
severally1399
departinglya1425
diviselyc1449
severately1470
sunderwisea1550
separately1552
disjunctively1590
semovedly1593
distributively1597
particular1599
dividedly1607
dividually1631
separatively1789
1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. xlviii. 101 We cannot be free from all sinne collectiuely..yet distributiuely..all great and grieuous actuall offences..may and ought to be..auoyded.
1652 T. Whitfield Doctr. Arminians 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.
1697 tr. F. Burgersdijck Monitio Logica 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.
1860 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. VIII. xlviii. 124 Grenville..answered that the whole empire was represented collectively, though not distributively, in parliament.
1889 Illingworth 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 n. 4b.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical classification > [adverb] > as regards logical extension
distributively1773
extensivelya1856
1773 E. 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.
1834 R. Whately Elem. Logic (ed. 5) III. § ii. 215 The middle term is used in one Premiss collectively, in the other, distributively.
1843 J. S. Mill Syst. Logic I. 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.
1864 F. C. Bowen Logic (1870) v. §2. 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.
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