distributively

adverb

dis·​trib·​u·​tive·​ly

|ə̇vlē, 

-li

1

: 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

2

: 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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