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Localised

adjective
1.
Confined or restricted to a particular location.  Synonym: localized.
2.
Made local or oriented locally.  Synonym: localized.






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"Localised" Quotes from Famous Books



... been specially examined with regard to its proportion of OH groups, as a necessary preliminary to the investigation of esters, in producing which the entire complex is employed. It will be shown that the ester groups can be actually localised in various ways, as in the main entering the cellulose residues alpha and beta. But that the lignone group takes little part in the reactions may be generally concluded on the evidence of its non-reactivity as an isolated derivative, (1) ...
— Researches on Cellulose - 1895-1900 • C. F. Cross

... according to Q, on Mount Ararat. In JE, as we have it, no landing-place is named. But this is not original, as mythic geography belongs to the Jehovist in all other passages where it occurs. In Q the primitive history is never localised, the whole earth is given to man for a dwelling from the first. In JE, on the contrary, they live first in the land of Eden far to the East, and presumably high up in the North; expelled from Eden they come to the land of Nod, where Cain builds the ...
— Prolegomena to the History of Israel • Julius Wellhausen

... deem that localised Romance Plays false with our affections; Unsanctifies our tears—made sport For fanciful dejections: Ah no! the visions of the past Sustain the heart in feeling Life as she is—our changeful Life, With friends ...
— A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century • Henry A. Beers

... the garden is as much a work of art,* or artifice, as anything that can be mentioned. The energy localised in certain human bodies, directed by similarly localised intellects, has produced a collocation of other material bodies which could not be brought about in the state of nature. The same proposition is ...
— Evolution and Ethics and Other Essays • Thomas H. Huxley



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