ppl. a. [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.
1816. G. 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.
a. 1849. H. Coleridge, Ess. (1851), I. 330. A strongly localised religion.
1860. G. 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.
1869. E. A. Parkes, Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3), 83. A very sudden and localised outbreak of either typhoid fever or cholera.
1880. Sir John Adye, in 19th 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.
1856. Dove, Logic Chr. Faith, II. ii. 117. All matter is only localised and partial force.
1871. Tyndall, Fragm. Sci., I. vii. (1876), 237. To produce the spark the heat must be intensely localised.
1880. Mac Cormac, Antisept. Surg., 18. A localised abscess formed near the drainage tube.
1885. Watson & Burbury, Math. Th. Electr. & Magn., I. 251. If we had an electric field with given localised charges.
1899. Allbutt’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.
