ppl. a. [f. LOCATE v. + -ING2.] That locates.

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1816–30.  Bentham, Offic. Apt. Maximized, Extract Const. Code (1830), 55. The locating functionaries will … remain in possession of a power of choice, altogether arbitrary.

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1898.  P. Manson, Trop. Diseases, xxiii. 356. When limited it [i.e., local œdema] is a useful locating symptom.

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