单词 | localist |
释义 | localistn.adj. A. n. 1. a. A person with a preference for his or her own place or region, esp. one whose outlook is limited by this, or whose interests, ideas, sympathies, etc., are restricted to local matters. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [noun] > of specific schools or theoretical standpoints > concerning disease localista1633 non-contagionist1824 infectionist1830 contagionist1831 solidist1842 naturist1848 neuropath1876 organicist1879 unicist1890 the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > bias, prejudice > narrow-mindedness > insularity, provincialism > [noun] > person localista1633 Podsnap1865 Main Streeter1934 a1633 Epigrammes xlii. 79 Localists, men prodigiously blind, False, wicked, proud, of an ambitious mind. 1683 O. U. Parish-churches No Conventicles 16 The Legislators had more regard to the Duty, than to the Place of it, and had more respect to the Discretion of the Priest, than this Localist hath; he labouring more for the Circumstance of Place, to gratify his own Humour, then the Intention of the Thing to edify the Congregation. 1776 Morning Chron. 18 Jan. It is, my dear Mrs. Pruen, (I often say to her) incompatible with your fine understanding to be such a localist. 1844 L. Cooke Value Landed Prop. Demonstrated i. 8 Practitioners of the modern school,..possessing a more extensive and general knowledge,..have infinitely the advantage of the mere localist in assigning to each description of land its proper value. 1860 M. J. Berkeley Outl. Brit. Fungol. 55 Where species are very difficult to distinguish, it is in general because forms are separated which are too closely allied, an evil which is familiar enough to every practical botanist, though apt to be overlooked or completely ignored by the inexperienced or mere localists. 1973 J. T. Main in A. M. Schlesinger Hist. U.S. Polit. Parties I. 139 The people of such areas were agrarians because agriculture was the principal economic activity. They were localists, because they lacked good communication with the outside world. b. Politics. An advocate or supporter of localism (localism n. 1b); a person who believes in the prioritization of local initiatives, issues, and concerns. ΚΠ 1861 Daily Argus & Democrat (Madison, Wisconsin) 6 Mar. Representing the county at large, he [sc. the Senator] does not feel called upon to meddle in the lobbying operations of localists. 1883 N.Z. Parl. Deb. 44 566 It is the misfortune of the Localists that they have to fight the Centralists on their chosen ground. 1913 Educ. Foundations Mar. 401 He [sc. the Slav in America] is a localist,..and his passive influence is for decentralization. 1955 C. E. Schorske German Social Democracy, 1905–1917 i. i. 8 There ensued a six-year battle between centralists and localists in which the stronger central leagues emerged triumphant. 2014 Kent & Sussex Courier (Nexis) 9 May 6 I am a localist: I believe in local communities and support local jobs and production. 2. A supporter or advocate of the belief that fevers or febrile diseases originate in a particular part or organ of the body, or are caused by conditions specific to a particular locality. Now historical. ΚΠ 1828 Medico-chirurg. Rev., & Jrnl. Pract. Med. 9 121 We hail Dr. Burne's escape from the schools of the localists. 1833 J. Forbes et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. II. 163 In our opinion, both essentialists and localists have taken a much too limited view of the etiology of fever. 1894 Jrnl. Dermatol. Oct. 306 Though much more a localist than a constitutionalist in the treatment of acne, he thought very inadequate weight had been laid upon diet. 1901 Q. Rev. Oct. 542 The ‘Localists’ attributed the epidemics to local conditions, atmospheric changes, uncleanliness, and so forth. 1999 P. Baldwin Contagion & State of Europe, 1830–1930 (2004) i. 8 Individual predisposition was a factor of interest both to localists and contagionists. B. adj. Of, relating to, or characterized by localism (in various senses); designating a localist. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > part of country or district > [adjective] > the provinces municipal1619 provincial1638 localist1855 non-metropolitan1876 1855 S. Dickson Destructive Art of Healing 36 Beware of the localist men—the ‘speciality’ doctors! 1875 Daily Evening Bull. (San Francisco) 13 Sept. 1/4 Dr. Pettenkofer..represents the ‘localist’ school, according to which cholera is chiefly engendered by the state of the soil and is not contagious. 1918 D. J. Saposs in J. R. Commons et al. Hist. Labour U.S. II. iii. 59 The prevalence of a localist tendency among the printers is further illustrated by the vicissitudes of the proposal for a national strike fund. 1988 New Statesman 17 June 46/1 There's a real commitment to a cultural policy which is simultaneously ‘localist’ and internationalist. 2012 Guardian (Nexis) 6 Oct. 34 He is a High Tory control freak who wants to run every school in the country... He hasn't got a localist bone in his body. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.a1633 |
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