total (total)

and n. [ So many there are of them in the Citadell that I think the totall number of them is at the least two hundred. Coryat , Crudities, I. 125. As the total tonnage [of Venetian merchant ve els] is but 26,000, it may be inferred that they are small craft. Howells, Venetian Life, xvi. 2. Comprising the whole; lacking no member or part; complete; entire. One Day Jove Sent Hermes down to Ida's Grove, Commanding Cupid to deliver His Store of Darts, his total Quiver. Prior, Mercury and Cupid. IMG:content-0639.png:[blocks in formation] It is a temporary, not a total retreat, such as we may leave off or resume. Bp . Atterbury , On Mat. xiv. 23. 41. Summary; concise; curt. Do you mean my tender ears to spare, That to my questions you so total are? Sir P. Sidney (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 549). Constructive total lo . See constructive . Total abstinence, entire abstinence from intoxicants. - Total cause. See cause , 1.-Total curvature, degree, depravity, differential, differentiation. See the nouns. - Total earth. Same as dead earth (which see, under earth1 ).-Total eclipse, an eclipse in which surface of the eclipsed luminary is obscured.-Total method, ophthalmoplegia, part, residual, term, etc. See the nouns. - Total reflection. See refraction, 1. =Syn. 1-3. Whole, Entire, etc. See complete. II. n. The whole; the whole sum or amount; an aggregate. A tapster's arithmetic may soon bring his particulars to a total. Shak., T. and C., i. 2. 124. total (total), v. t.; pret. and pp. totaled, totalled, ppr. totaling, totalling. [ The sum 365 is correct when totalled ; but the mode in which it is obtained is vitiated by two anomalies. N. and Q., 7th ser., XI. 135. Prices, numbers, and dates are all clearly tabulated and totalled up for us. The Engineer, LXV. 467. 2. To reach a total of; amount to. 86 small craft, totalling 500 tons, were built of wood. The Engineer, LXV. 6.