specialisticadj.

1856 New Orleans Med. & Surg. Jrnl. May 854 Even the specialistic surgeon must be in no respect inferior to the physician in pathology and therapeutics.

1882 Athenæum 7 Jan. 13/1 The specialistic study demanded by modern philology.

1890 Athenæum 19 July 87/2 The learned, specialistic mind takes in the facts of one or two creeds or departments.

1893 Minutes National Council Congregational Churches U.S. 1892 220 Encouragement of specialistic investigation on the part of both faculty and students.

1920 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Nov. 765/2 Criticism..directed against the scholar's predilection for specialistic absorption.

1952 H. R. Fairbanks & C. P. Berkey Life & Lett. R. A. F. Penrose p. vi He was more deeply moved by the vision of the philosopher and the prophet than by specialistic genius.

2008 Pluralist 3 4 Bengtsson is able..to avoid the kind of specialistic attention to detail and nuance that might have cluttered a less philosophical, more positivistic study.