totality (total it i)

[= F. total ité = Pr. total it at = Sp. total i dad = Pg. tot alidade = It. total ità, There was no handle of weakne to take hold of her by; she was as unseizable, except in her totality , as a billiard ball. O. W. Holmes, Profe or, iii. 2. That which is total; a whole; an aggregate. We must love him with all our heart, mind, and soul; with a threefold totality. Rev. T. Adams, Works, III. 256. It is absolutely impo ible to explain a living or, indeed, a self-efficient totality of any kind by means of the aggre E. Montgomery, Mind, IX. 370. 3. In astron ., the period during which an eclipse is total; the time of total obscuration. gation of elementary constituents or forces. [Colloq.] These totted together will make a pretty beginning of my little project. H. Brooke, Fool of Quality, II. 211. (Davies.) The coppery hue after the commencement of totality was of a duller tint than usual. Athenæum , Feb. 4, 1888, p. 150. [ totalize + -ation.] The act or proce of totalizing, or the state of being totalized. Also spelled total is a tion. totalization The totalization of the slight liftings due to the repetition of this maneuver on each of the cables finally effected a general lifting of four inches. Sci . Amer ., N. S., LIX. 404. totalizator (tō"tal-i-zātor), n. Same as total i zer. totalize (tō'tal-iz), v.; pret. and pp. totalized, 6399 but the African words which have come into E. use through Southern negroes are few and doubtful ( buckra is one example), and do not in- clude verbs.] To carry or bear, especially in the arms, on the shoulders, or on the back, as a burden or load. [Southern U. S., colloq. or totipalmation totem, begins and ends with the individual man, and is not, like the clan totem, transmitted by inheritance. through his mother was kangaroo, but whose "secret" (i. e., individual) totem was the tiger-snake. Snakes of that species, therefore, would not hurt him. Australia we hear a medicine-man whose clan totem J. G. Frazer, Encyc. Brit., XΧΧΙΙΙ. 471. as total + -ize.] I. trans. To make total; reduce to totality, as by adding or accumulating. The rise of the totalised (i. e. integrated) potential round the armature can be measured experimentally. S. P. Thompson , Dynamo-Elect. Mach., p. 53. II. in trans. To use the totalizer in betting. The totalising system has been flourishing ever since at the German and Austrian race-meetings. St. James's Gazette, June 14, 1887. ( Encyc . Dict .) Also spelled totalise .