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verb

Distribute v. t. (past & past part. distributed; pres. part. distributing)

To divide among several or many; to deal out; to apportion; to allot. "She did distribute her goods to all them that were nearest of kindred."

To dispense; to administer; as, to distribute justice.

To divide or separate, as into classes, orders, kinds, or species; to classify; to assort, as specimens, letters, etc.

(Printing)

(a)

To separate (type which has been used) and return it to the proper boxes in the cases.

(b)

To spread (ink) evenly, as upon a roller or a table.

(Logic) To employ (a term) in its whole extent; to take as universal in one premise. "A term is said to be distributed when it is taken universal, so as to stand for everything it is capable of being applied to."

Synonyms: To dispense; deal out; apportion; allot; share; assign; divide.

Distribute v. i. To make distribution.

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"Distribute" Quotes from Famous Books

... gave me their undivided attention and what is more they showed their attachment, their affection and their fellowship for me by accepting the humble advice that I had the honour of tendering to them, and I told them I am not here to distribute justice that can be awarded only through our worthy president. But I ask you not to go to the president, you need not worry him. If you are strong, if you are brave, if you are intent upon getting Swaraj, and if you really want ...

— Freedom's Battle - Being a Comprehensive Collection of Writings and Speeches on the Present Situation • Mahatma Gandhi

... a couple of hundred of my pamphlets, which I said I trusted he would be so kind as to distribute ...

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... permission with apostolic privilege—the very reverend father-provincial of Andalucia, Maestro Fray Diego de el Castillo, granting authority to the prior of the convent of San Sebastian in Philipinas in order that he, in his person alone, could and might bless the scapularies of his holy order, and distribute them to the faithful who might request them. From the receipt of that despatch, and by means of such a distribution, the confraternity became full to overflowing. The feast could not be held on its appropriate day in ...

— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XXI, 1624 • Various

... reason to place confidence in Cleisthenes. Accordingly, now that he was the popular leader, three years after the expulsion of the tyrants, in the archonship of Isagoras, his first step was to distribute the whole population into ten tribes in place of the existing four, with the object of intermixing the members of the different tribes, and so securing that more persons might have a share in the franchise. From this arose the saying 'Do not look at the tribes', ...

— The Athenian Constitution • Aristotle

... To achieve this noble end no bribery was too wholesale, no violence too brutal, no intrigue too paltry. It was his sacred and special mission to save France from herself. If he should fail, he could at least carve her in pieces, and distribute her among himself and friends. Frenchmen might assist him in either of these arrangements, but it was absurd to doubt that on him devolved the work and the responsibility. Yet among his advisers were some ...

— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley

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