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localized, ppl. a.|ˈləʊkəlaɪzd| [f. localize v. + -ed1.] In senses of the verb: e.g. made local, invested with local characteristics; fixed in, attached or restricted to, a certain locality.
1816G. S. Faber Orig. Pagan Idol. II. 26 The history of the Argo must have been well known to that southern nation, anterior to its localized adoption by the Greeks. a1849H. Coleridge Ess. (1851) I. 330 A strongly localised religion. 1860G. H. K. Vac. Tour 136 The oak..has vanished altogether,..and I could never hear of or see any in the bogs, so that I expect that even in the old times they were strictly localized. 1869E. A. Parkes Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 83 A very sudden and localised outbreak of either typhoid fever or cholera. 188019th Cent. No. 38. 708 That each native regiment should be composed of men of some distinct nationality, religion, or race, with a localised depôt. b. Fixed in a particular part (of a system or the like); gathered or concentrated into one point or part; spec. in Path., occurring in, or restricted to, some particular part or parts of the body.
1856Dove Logic Chr. Faith ii. ii. 117 All matter is only localised and partial force. 1871Tyndall Fragm. Sci. i. vii. (1876) 237 To produce the spark the heat must be intensely localised. 1880Mac Cormac Antisept. Surg. 18 A localised abscess formed near the drainage tube. 1885Watson & Burbury Math. Th. Electr. & Magn. I. 251 If we had an electric field with given localised charges. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VI. 859 Such localised pain soon becomes merged in the diffuse pain due to pressure on the cord as a whole. Ibid. VIII. 15 This form of valgus..is curable by localised faradisation of the muscle. |