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localize, v.|ˈləʊkəlaɪz|
[f. local a. + -ize.]
1. trans. To make local in character; to invest or imbue with the characteristics of a particular place or locality.
1792M. Wollstonecraft Rights Wom. 123 May it not be fairly inferred that their [sc. the nobility's] local situation swallowed up the man, and produced a character similar to that of women, who are locallized, if I may be allowed the word, by the rank they are placed in, by courtesy? a1796Burns Remarks Sc. Songs Wks. 1834 VIII. 18 Songs are always less or more localised (if I may be allowed the verb) by some of the modifications of time and place.
2. To fix or plant in a particular place or district, or in a particular part or point of any whole or system. Usually with limitative force: To restrict or confine to a particular place or area; to make local in range or currency.
1798W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. XXV. 162 Their privileged banks [etc.]..which unnaturally localize and accumulate wealth, that was intended by nature for equal diffusion among the skilful and industrious. a1835J. MacCulloch Proofs & Illustr. Attrib. God (1837) III. xlii. 91 To localize peculiar foods to peculiar climates. 1839Spirit Metrop. Conserv. Press (1840) I. 54 There, on that spot, stands the fatal axe of the revolutionary tribunal, naturalised everywhere, localised everywhere. 1859G. Wilson Gateways Knowl. (ed. 3) 96 Though we are in the habit of speaking of it [sc. the sense of touch] as localised in the fingers. 1866Grove Contrib. Sci. in Corr. Phys. Forces 201 The power of localising, if the term be permitted, heat which would otherwise be dissipated. 1888Daily News 25 July 5/1 Contributors may subscribe either to the general fund, or, if they prefer it, to the local institute... It would be a matter for general regret if any very large proportion of the contributors localised their money.
b. To identify with a particular locality or localities; to attach to particular districts.
1870Daily Tel. 24 Nov., The advocates for ‘localising’ the Army give us advice of the most valuable kind. 1872Cardwell in Hansard Parl. Deb. 3rd Ser. CCIX. 895 The principles on which we propose to localize the Army.
c. To concentrate (attention) upon a particular spot.
1820W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. XCII. 62 Localizing attention on the meritorious parts. 1861Wynter Soc. Bees 493 Thus we may will that a spot in the skin shall itch, and it will itch, if we can only localize our attention upon the point sufficiently.
3. To attribute (in thought or statement) to a particular place or locality; to find or invent a locality for, ascertain or determine the locality of. Occas. const. to.
1816G. S. Faber Orig. Pagan Idol. II. 254 The mere vanity of local appropriation, similar to that by which they severally localized the history of the deluge and the appulse of the Ark. 1833Wordsw. Fancy & Tradition, Thus everywhere to truth Tradition clings, Or Fancy localizes Powers we love. a1849H. Coleridge Ess. (1851) II. 270 note, The Romans appropriated and localised every tale and tradition. 1855Bain Senses & Int. ii. i. §12 (1864) 97 Part of the agreeable feeling in the exercise of the muscular organs..can be localised, or referred to the muscles actually engaged. 1868Bain Ment. & Mor. Sci. 4 Descartes localized mind in the pineal gland. 1875H. James R. Hudson vii. 232 It seemed to him that he had seen her before, but he was unable to localize her face. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. iii. 182 At first it was a somewhat difficult matter to discover the exact place of the fault, or, as it is termed, to ‘localise’ it. 1879St. George's Hosp. Rep. IX. 664 He was again attacked by intense headache, which could not be localised to any particular part of the head.
Hence ˈlocalizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1816G. S. Faber Orig. Pagan Idol. I. 397 The localizing humour of their religion. 1841I. Taylor Anc. Chr. (1842) II. vii. 841 In every system of polytheistic worship there has been a localizing of divinities. 1870Ruskin Lect. Art ii. (1875) 57 Speaking exclusively of this localising influence as it affects our own faith. 1898P. Manson Trop. Diseases xxiii. 354 Pain on firm pressure with the finger tips in an intercostal space..is a common and valuable localising sign [of liver abscess]. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VI. 762 Any such localising symptoms as have been described.
Add:4. intr. a. In Path., (of a symptom, infective agent, etc.) to be or become restricted to a particular part or parts of the body; in Ecol., (of a species) to adopt a geographically restricted area as its territory.
1957R. W. Raven Cancer I. viii. 270 The viruses of West Nile, Ilheus and Bunyamwera localized preferentially in the tumours of some patients. 1972A. L. Smith Microbiol. & Path. (ed. 10) x. 78/2 Meningococci localize in the leptomeninges. 1988Zool. Jrnl. Linn. Soc. XCII. 45 At the pond ‘P[rocordulia]’ grayi usually localized on, and patrolled, an area of pond. Ibid. 46 Male H[emicordulia] australiae, whether on ponds or lakeshores, localized in a small area or near some geographical feature and defended this territory aggressively.
b. Of a person: to adapt oneself to a place and settle there.
1930H. Morris Barrister iii. 49 A decision..whether to practise in London or to localise in some provincial town. 1941K. Tennant Battlers xxvi. 285 ‘You won't think he'd localise?’ The Apostle shook his head. ‘I don't think he ever would. He's been on the track so long, it's in his blood.’ |
