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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 2

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. 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. Judith xvi. 24.

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

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

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

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

6. 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. Whately.

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To make distribution. Distributing to the necessity of saints. Rom. xii. 13.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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