a. [f. prec. + -IC.] Of a theory: Attributing a local nature or origin.
1882. Pop. Sci. Monthly, XX. 336. The localistic theory of cholera.
1896. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., I. 881. Until now he has defended the ‘localistic’ view [of the origin of cholera poison] against those of Koch and the contagionists.
1899. E. P. Morris, in Amer. Jrnl. Philol., XX. 323. As long as the conflict between localistic and grammatical theories of the cases is undecided.
