This appears to be a misspelled third-person singular present tense of 'distribute'; it is not standard English.
A misspelling of distributes (from distribute plus -s third person). Not valid in modern English.
Even famous authors occasionally misspelled words before modern spell-check—these typos in historical texts help linguists understand that consistent spelling is a relatively new achievement.
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