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<hw>Dis*trib"u*ta*ry</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Tending to distribute or be distributed; that distributes; distributive.</def>

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<hw>Dis*trib"ute</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Distributed</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Distributing</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>distributus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>distribuere</ets> to divide, distribute; <ets>dis-</ets> + <ets>tribuere</ets> to assign, give, allot. See <er>Tribute</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To divide among several or many; to deal out; to apportion; to allot.</def>

<blockquote>She did <b>distribute</b> her goods to all them that were nearest of kindred. <i>Judith xvi. 24.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To dispense; to administer; <as>as, to <ex>distribute</ex> justice</as>.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To divide or separate, as into classes, orders, kinds, or species; to classify; to assort, as specimens, letters, etc.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Printing)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>To separate (type which has been used) and return it to the proper boxes in the cases.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>To spread (ink) evenly, as upon a roller or a table.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <fld>(Logic)</fld> <def>To employ (a term) in its whole extent; to take as universal in one premise.</def>

<blockquote>A term is said to be <b>distributed</b> when it is taken universal, so as to stand for everything it is capable of being applied to. <i>Whately.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- To dispense; deal out; apportion; allot; share; assign; divide.</syn>

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<hw>Dis*trib"ute</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To make distribution.</def>

<blockquote><b>Distributing</b> to the necessity of saints. <i>Rom. xii. 13.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Dis*trib"u*ter</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who, or that which, distributes or deals out anything; a dispenser.</def>

<i>Addison.</i>

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<hw>Dis*trib"u*ting</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>That distributes; dealing out.</def>

<cs><col>Distributing past office</col>, <cd>an office where the mails for a large district are collected to be assorted according to their destination and forwarded.</cd></cs>

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<hw>Dis`tri*bu"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>distributio</ets>: cf. F. <ets>distribution</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of distributing or dispensing; the act of dividing or apportioning among several or many; apportionment; <as>as, the <ex>distribution</ex> of an estate among heirs or children</as>.</def>

<blockquote>The phenomena of geological <b>distribution</b> are exactly analogous to those of geography. <i>A. R. Wallace.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Separation into parts or classes; arrangement of anything into parts; disposition; classification.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>That which is distributed.</def> "Our charitable <i>distributions</i>."

<i>Atterbury.</i>