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totalize, v.|ˈtəʊtəlaɪz| [f. total a. + -ize: cf. F. totaliser (neologism in Littré).] trans. To make total; to combine into a total or aggregate. Hence ˈtotalized ppl. a.; ˈtotalizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.; totalizing machine, a totalizator.
1818Coleridge in Rem. (1836) I. 223 To place these images totalized and fitted to the limits of the human mind so as to elicit from..the forms themselves the moral reflexions to which they approximate. 1855Bain Senses & Int. iii. ii. §33 (1864) 525 This force, or impulse, of mind that resists the totalizing influence of a complex object, and isolates for study and comparison its individual effects. 1865Grote Treat. Mor. Ideas iv. (1876) 43 A number of partial views which we cannot harmonize and totalize or bring into a whole. 1888Daily News 27 Aug. 3/5 [At Baden] Betting is now strictly prohibited, except by the medium of the totalising machine, which is worked under State supervision. 1888Sci. Amer. 29 Dec. 404/1 The cables..constituted a totalizing apparatus that permitted of moving million-pound masses by means of..successive stresses never exceeding 15 tons. |