a. [f. prec. + -IC.] Of a theory: Attributing a local nature or origin.
1882. M. von Pettenkofer, in Pop. Sci. Monthly, XX. 336. The localistic theory of cholera and other epidemics can no longer be put in question.
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.
