Marine vertebrates have their weight supported distributively by the water. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Taken distributively, their rights are imperceptible. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : distributive law for multiplication over addition. From Dictionary.com.
Thus a common name distributively refers to concrete individuals, though not to them qua individuals. From Wordnik.com. [Peter Abelard] Reference
A Collective Term denotes a multitude of similar things considered as forming one whole, as 'regiment,' 'flock,' 'nation': not distributively, that is, not the similar things severally; to denote them we must say. From Wordnik.com. [Logic Deductive and Inductive] Reference
These sacks (distributively) are too heavy to lift. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
The commentator thinks it should be taken distributively. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
What is true (distributively) of a whole term is true of all that it includes. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
The same term may be used collectively or distributively in different relations. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
On the one hand, we may see distributively, holding objects as individuals each in our attention, neglecting light and space and air. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference
But when we say 'All men are all rational animals,' the predicate no longer applies to the subject distributively, but only collectively. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
But the gratuitous graces would seem to be certain participations, bestowed distributively and particularly upon divers subjects, according to 1. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
In the case of the complex constructive dilemma the several members, instead of being distributively assigned to one another, may be connected together as a whole -- thus. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
This being spoken to them indefinitely, was to be applied distributively and respectively, only to them to whom it properly appertained, viz. the elders, as hath been showed. From Wordnik.com. [The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London] Reference
When it is said 'The plays of Shakspeare cannot be read in a day,' the proposition meets with a very different measure of acceptance according as its subject is understood collectively or distributively. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
Now, if every being distributively were dependent and made, the whole would be so, not by a single dependence or but by a collection of them; this is precisely the way in which a whole like this is dependent. From Wordnik.com. [Suarezian Arguments Against Circular and Infinite Regress of Efficient Causes] Reference
He also says that the idea of what people distributively deserve is derivative from social justice rather (as with Aristotle and much common-sense thinking) providing the basis for thinking about social justice. From Wordnik.com. [Justice as a Virtue] Reference
These terms are semantically general, in that their sense applies to more than one thing, but they do not thereby name some general thing; instead, they distributively refer to each of the individuals to which the term applies. From Wordnik.com. [Peter Abelard] Reference
Rom. iv., v. Secondly, That by “all,” 1 Tim.ii. 1, is not meant all sorts of men, and the word all is not to be taken distributively, when the apostle, by an enumeration of divers sorts, gives an evident demonstration of the distribution intended. From Wordnik.com. [The Death of Death in the Death of Christ] Reference
The definite article is used distributively: = "all artifice.". From Wordnik.com. [Esther] Reference
Pluralism lets things really exist in the each-form or distributively. From Wordnik.com. [A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy] Reference
Now undoubtedly finite things, taken distributively, have contradictory attributes, but not as a class. From Wordnik.com. [John Stuart Mill; His Life and Works Twelve Sketches by Herbert Spencer, Henry Fawcett, Frederic Harrison, and Other Distinguished Authors] Reference
He would still talk of the H and O distributively, merely noting that they acted now in the new position H-O-H. From Wordnik.com. [A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy] Reference
Either the whole people taken collectively must rule the same whole taken distributively, or a part must rule the rest. From Wordnik.com. [Moral Philosophy] Reference
Committees distributively there or in other places of meeting, busy day after day, through the rest of the hot month of July, and then into. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649] Reference
Translate, "bright and pure"; at once brilliantly splendid and spotless as in the bride herself. righteousness -- Greek, "righteousnesses"; distributively used. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
Hence the common image is not predicable of the individuals distributively because it is still somehow concrete, singular, sensible, material, and represents only quality. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy] Reference
That the term "people," in the preamble to the Constitution and in the tenth amendment, is used distributively; that the only "people of the United States" known to the Constitution are the people of each. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government] Reference
Constitution which succeeded it, the only people, in fine, known or referred to in the phraseology of that period -- whether the term was used collectively or distributively -- were the people of the respective. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government] Reference
Private property in the soil belongs only to the people, taken distributively and not collectively; from which condition, however, a nomadic people must be excepted as having no private property at all in the soil. From Wordnik.com. [The Science of Right] Reference
All of a sudden, you can say it’s distributively progressive to favor Harvard-educated bloggers who just bought expensive new condos, over blue-collar workers driving beat-up Fords into the city from PG County. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » DDOT Decides That Speedy Cars are More Important than Pedestrian Safety] Reference
But Chetib, singular, "his servant;" that is, distributively, "each with his servants;" Jer 17: 25, "their princes.". From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
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