Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DIS-TRI-BU'TION
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DIS-TRI-BU'TION, n. [L. distributio.]
- The act of dividing among a number; a dealing in parts or portions; as, the distribution of an estate among heirs or children.
- The act of giving in charity; a bestowing in parts. – Bacon. Atterbury.
- Dispensation; administration to numbers; a rendering to individuals; as, the distribution of justice.
- The act of separating into distinct parts or classes; as, the distribution of plants into genera and species.
- In architecture, the dividing and disposing of the several parts of the building, according to some plan, or to the rules of the art.
- In rhetoric, a division and enumeration of the several qualities of a subject.
- In general, the division and disposition of the parts of any thing.
- In printing, the taking a form apart; the separating of the types, and placing each letter in its proper cell in the cases.
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