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- 1553, Thomas Wilson, The Arte of Rhetorique: A facsimile reproduction with an introduction by Robert Hood Bowers, Fellow of the Newberry Library (1962), the third boke: “Of apte chuſyng and framyng of woꝛdes and ſentences together, called Elocucion”, §: ‘Of coloures and oꝛnamentes to commende and ſette foꝛth an Oꝛation’, sub-§: « Diſtribucion », folio 98, page 208:
- Diſtribucion, is whẽ we apply to euery body, ſuche thynges as are due vnto them, declaryng what euery one is in his vocacion.
- ibidem, folio 99, page 209:
- It is alſo called a diſtribucion, when we diuide the whole, into ſeuerall partes, and ſaie we haue foure poynctes, whereof we purpoſe to ſpeake, compꝛehendyng our whole talke within compaſſe of theſame.
- 1728, Ephraim Chambers, Cyclopædia: or, An Univerſal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (first edition), volume I of II, page 230/2 s.v. “Diſtribution²”:
- Diſtribution, in Rhetoric, a Kind of Deſcription; or a Figure, whereby an orderly Diviſion, and Enumeration is made of the principal Qualities of a Subject.
- 2021, Philippe Descamps, Ravages de l’automobilisme, Le Monde diplomatique (June 2021);
- « No parking, no business » (« pas de stationnement, pas d’affaires ») : le gourou de la distribution Bernardo Trujillo prêche l’avènement du « tout automobile » et les moyens d’en tirer bénéfice en jouant sur la péréquation des marges, proches de zéro pour les produits d’appel comme l’essence et maximales sur les autres — « un îlot de pertes dans un océan de profits ».