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▪ I. totum1 Now dial.|ˈtəʊtəm|
[a. L. tōtum all, the whole, the initial T of which was one of the four letters inscribed on the teetotum: cf. F. toton, in Cotgr. and Dict. Acad. 1694–1740 totum, pronounced (tətɔ̃).]
= teetotum, q.v.
[1500–20Dunbar Poems xxii. 74 He playis with totum and I with nichell.] 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Totum, a Whirl-bone, a kind of Die that is turned about. 1734Chesterfield in Lett. C'tess Suffolk (1824) II. 116 A couple of totums set a spinning. 1825Jamieson, Totum [n. 1], the game of Te-totum. [See Eng. Dial. Dict., totum2.]
▪ II. ˈtotum2 Sc.
[perh. a humorous extension of tot n.4; but generally associated with prec.]
A little child, a wee tot.
17..Cauld Kail in Aberdeen in Aitken Scott. Song (1874) 146 Whene'er the totums cry for meat She curses aye his cogie. 1844A. Cochrane in Whitelaw Bk. Scott. Song (1875) 73/1 Our twa bits o' totums are toddlin their lane. 1898Westm. Gaz. 6 Oct. 3/2 The fact..that had generated so critical an eyesight in this ‘totum’ of three.
▪ III. ‖ ˈtotum3
[L.: see totum1.]
A whole.
1657J. Smith Myst. Rhet. A viij b, Totum, is whatsoever hath parts:..and so parts are such as make up the whole. a1658Cleveland On little Gentleman 22 How comes it that she thus converts So small a Totum, and great Parts? 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. i. §31 The totum or compositum of a man or animal may be said to be generated and corrupted, in regard of the union and disunion, conjunction and separation of those two parts, the soul and body. |