distributive Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective serving to distribute or allot or disperse

WordNet

Dis*trib"u*tive adjective
Etymology
Cf. F. distributif.
Definitions
  1. Tending to distribute; serving to divide and assign in portions; dealing to each his proper share. "Distributive justice." Swift.
  2. (Logic) Assigning the species of a general term.
  3. (Gram.) Expressing separation; denoting a taking singly, not collectively; as, a distributive adjective or pronoun, such as each, either, every; a distributive numeral, as (Latin) bini (two by two).
Dis*trib"u*tive noun
Definitions
  1. (Gram.) A distributive adjective or pronoun; also, a distributive numeral.

Webster 1913