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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. Preface to 1828 Dictionary
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DISTRIBUTIVE, a.
DISTRIBUTIVE, n. In grammar, a word that divides or distributes, as each and every, which represent the individuals of a collective number as separate.
Tending to distribute;
serving to divide and assign in portions; dealing to each his proper
share.
"Distributive justice." Swift. Assigning the species of a
general term.
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).
Distributive operation (Math.), any operation which either consists of two or more parts, or works upon two or more things, and which is such that the result of the total operation is the same as the aggregated result of the two or more partial operations. Ordinary multiplication is distributive, since a × (b + c) = ab + ac, and (a + b) × c = ac + bc. -- Distributive proportion. (Math.) See Fellowship. A distributive adjective or pronoun; also, a distributive
numeral.
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