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/dɪstrˈɪbjutɪv/ Listen

adjective

Distributive adj.

Tending to distribute; serving to divide and assign in portions; dealing to each his proper share. "Distributive justice."

(Logic) Assigning the species of a general term.

(Gram.) Expressing separation; denoting a taking singly, not collectively; as, a distributive adjective or pronoun, such as each, either, every; a distributive numeral, as (Latin) bini (two by two).

Distributive operation (Math.), any operation which either consists of two or more parts, or works upon two or more things, and which is such that the result of the total operation is the same as the aggregated result of the two or more partial operations. Ordinary multiplication is distributive, since a times (b + c) = ab + ac, and (a + b) times c = ac + bc.

Distributive proportion. (Math.) See Fellowship.

noun

Distributive n. (Gram.) A distributive adjective or pronoun; also, a distributive numeral.

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"Distributive" Quotes from Famous Books

... | | | The Murder of Mr. Benjamin Nathan. | | | | The widow having determined to increase the rewards | | heretofore offered by me (in my proclamation of July 29), | | and no result having yet been obtained, and suggestions | | having been made that the rewards were not sufficiently | | distributive or specific, the offers in the previous | | proclamation are hereby superseded by the following: | | | | A REWARD of $30,000 will be paid for the arrest and | | conviction of the murderer of BENJAMIN NATHAN, who was | | killed in hie house, No. 12 West Twenty-third ...

— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 23, September 3, 1870 • Various

... and sums up as the demand for every worker and every master the resurrection of the old ideal of work; the doing away of competition as it at present rules, and the substitution of co-operation, productive as well as distributive; industrial education for every child, rich or poor; and that and recognition of the interests of all as a portion of our personal charge and responsibility, which, if I name it Socialism, will be scouted as a dream of an impossible future, but which none the less bears ...

— Prisoners of Poverty Abroad • Helen Campbell

... P. Wilson, in speaking of the classification of words, observes, "The names of the distributive parts should either express, distinctly, the influence, which each class produces on sentences; or some other characteristic trait, by which the respective species of words may be distinguished, without danger of confusion. It ...

— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown

... had thus offended most of the heads of distributive justice, and the demons of the law were accordingly let loose on him, before the first vessel's complaint was brought to trial, he had seized four others under similar predicaments. On these occasions, too, having ordered ...

— The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Vol. I (of 2) • James Harrison

... sense Socialism is identical with the definite economic doctrine of the Collectivistic organization of the productive and distributive work of society. It also possesses, as Bosanquet remarks (in an essay on "Individualism and Socialism," in The Civilization of Christendom), "a deeper meaning as a name for a human tendency that is operative throughout history." Every Collectivist ...

— The Task of Social Hygiene • Havelock Ellis

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