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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Respectively \Re*spec"tive*ly\, adv
1. As relating to each particularly; as each belongs to
each as each refers to each in order as let each man
respectively perform his duty.
The impressions from the objects or the senses do
mingle respectively every one with its kind
--Bacon.
2. Relatively; not absolutely. [Obs.] --Sir W. Raleigh.
3. Partially; with respect to private views. [Obs.]
4. With respect; regardfully. [Obs.] --Shak.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
respectively
adv : in the order given "the brothers were called Felix and Max,
respectively" [syn: {severally}]
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