]ə̇vlē, -li\ adverb
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