[f. as prec.] That specializes, in senses of the verb.
In the first group of quots. the ppl. a. is not clearly separable from attributive uses of the vbl. sb.
(a) 1701. Norris, Ideal World, I. vi. 326. The great specializing character that distinguishes necessary and eternal truths from those of the opposite order.
1861. H. Macmillan, Footnotes fr. Page Nature, 203. In the fungi, however, there is little or nothing of this specializing or differentiating process.
1873. Symonds, Grk. Poets, v. 111. We remark a powerful specializing tendency.
(b) 1890. Times, 24 Dec., 7/3. To enable ‘specializing’ students to follow their courses.
1894. Nature’s Method in Evol. Life, vi. 70. Specialising organs made their appearance.
