Definition of "respective"

Adam and Novikovas swapped long-range efforts, neither of which troubled the respective keepers.

2012 August 23, Alasdair Lamont, “Hearts 0-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport‎

Hitachi and CAF have begun a staged return to work at their respective Newton Aycliffe and Newport factories, having reduced output following the COVID-19 outbreak.

2020 April 22, “Network News: Staged return to work at Hitachi and CAF factories”, in Rail, page 9

But if you looke upon the estate of the church of England with a respective eye , you cannot with a good conscience refuse this charge imposed upon you

c. 1559-1570, Edwin Sandys, letter to Bernard Gilpin

What should it be that he respects in her / But I can make respective in myself,

c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act IV, scene iv], line 192

With a respective shame, rose, took us by the hands.The spelling has been modernized.

, Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter; The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volumes (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843,

With thy equals familiar, yet respective.

a. 1598, William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, instructions to his son Robert Cecil, when young