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: in a distributive manner
not predicating something about the class as such but about its membership distributively—
Jørgen Jørgensen marine vertebrates … have their body weight supported distributively by water displacement, instead of having it concentrated on two or four columns of leg bone—Weston La Barre
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: as individuals or separate units : individually, separately
their potential rights, which, taken distributively, are imperceptible, amount collectively to a most important interest—John Marshall
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