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Localise

verb
1.
Identify the location or place of.  Synonyms: localize, place.
2.
Concentrate on a particular place or spot.  Synonyms: focalise, focalize, localize.
3.
Restrict something to a particular area.  Synonym: localize.
4.
Locate.  Synonyms: localize, place, set.






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"Localise" Quotes from Famous Books



... Llandudno owing to the refusal of Mr. EVAN ROBERTS, the famous revivalist, to localise the materialisation of the Millennium, which he has recently prophesied, at Llandudno during the Easter holidays. By way of a set-off an effort was made to induce Sir AUCKLAND GEDDES to give a vocal recital before his departure ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, April 7, 1920 • Various

... that she does not quite understand her own story; her difficulty was perhaps due to the fact that though Trapanese sailors had given her a fair idea as to where all her other localities really were, no one in those days more than in our own could localise the Planctae, which in fact, as Buttmann has argued, were derived not from any particular spot, but from sailors' tales about the difficulties of navigating the group of the Aeolian islands as a whole (see note on "Od." x. 3). Still the matter ...
— The Odyssey • Homer

... historical Christianity. To all such it may surely be said, as the simplest enunciation of reasoning, that they cannot profess belief in the Church which the Creed proclaims while they accept or reject its authority as they please. Or to localise a general expression: A man does not follow the doctrine of St. Augustine if he accepts his condemnation of Pelagius, but denies that unity of the Church in maintaining which St. Augustine spent his forty years of teaching. The action of all such ...
— The Formation of Christendom, Volume VI - The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I • Thomas W. (Thomas William) Allies

... that we ab origine localise sensations with reference to our organism. This, of course, means by reference to the system of potent energy in which our organism ...
— Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge • Alexander Philip



Words linked to "Localise" :   situate, locate, lie, present, localisation, restrict, stage, represent, focalize, draw



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