adj. & n.
--adj.
1. of, concerned with, or produced by distribution.
2 Logic & Gram. (of a pronoun etc.) referring to each individual of a class, not to the class collectively (e.g. each, either).
--n. Gram. a distributive word.
Derivatives:
distributively adv.
Etymology: ME f. F distributif -ive or LL distributivus (as DISTRIBUTE)