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omnium|ˈɒmnɪəm|
[a. L. omnium ‘of all (things, sorts, etc.)’, genitive pl. of omnis all. In sense 1, also, omnium gatherum, which may have been the original appellation.]
1. Stock Exchange. The aggregate amount (at market price) of the parcels of different stocks and other considerations, formerly offered by Government, in raising a loan, for each unit of capital (i.e. every hundred pounds) subscribed.
‘The subscribers to the Loan..are entitled not only to hold their share in the capital [the funded loan], but to an annuity for ten years, and to the right of receiving a certain number of Lottery tickets on advantageous terms. They may sell their capital to one person, their annuity to a second, and their right to the tickets to a third. The value of all these interests together is called Omnium: and, in order to obtain a ready subscription, it ought to amount to 102l. or upwards, on 100l. of capital. This difference is called the bonus to the subscribers’. (Encycl. Brit. (1797) s.v. Fund.)
1760Colman Polly Honeycomb ii, The Omniums, eh, Miss! I like the Omniums, and don't care how large a premium I give for them. 1761T. Mortimer Ev. man his own Broker 163 Omnium is the whole subscription undivided; and is known in the Alley by the name of Omnium Gatherum, a cant phrase for, all together. 1770C. Jenner Placid Man ii. vi, Her head was as full with wealth, scrip, omnium, consols, and lord-mayors shews. 1783J. Adams Wks. (1853) VIII. 117 (Stanf.) The English omnium which at first was sold for eight or ten per cent. profit, fell to one and a half. 1810Grellier Hist. Nat. Debt 392 The Omnium of this loan was at first at a premium of 2½ per cent. but soon fell to a discount. 1819T. Mortimer Gen. Comm. Dict. (ed. 2), Omnium, a term used among the Stock Jobbers to express all the articles included in the Contract between Government and the original subscribers to a loan, which of late years has consisted generally of different proportions of three, and four per cent. Stock with a certain quantity of terminable annuities. 1832–52McCulloch Comm. Dict. s.v., In the loan of 36,000,000l. contracted for in June, 1815, the omnium consisted of 130l. 3 per cent. reduced annuities, 44l. 3 per cent. consols, and 10l. 4 per cent. annuities, for each 100l. subscribed. a1860Rules Stock Exch. in C. Fenn Eng. & For. Funds (1883) 120 The settling-day in English omnium and scrip shall be two days prior to the respective days of payment of each of the several instalments.
b. Colloquially applied to other combined stocks the constituents of which are capable of being dealt with separately.
Thus ‘The London Extension Stock’ issued in July, 1894, by the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway, which could be divided into ordinary and preference stock, and gave a right to Debenture Stock on certain terms, was known on the Stock Exchange as ‘Sheffield Omnium’.
2. (with allusion to prec.) The whole sum of what one values or is interested in; one's ‘all’.
1766Colman Clandestine Marriage iv. iii, 'Tis my only wish at present, my omnium, as I may call it. 1818Scott Rob Roy xxii, You, that was your father's sum-total—his omnium—you that might have been the first man in the first house in the first city.
3. Applied to a large wagon (? carrying the whole of a person's possessions).
1836A. F. Gardiner Zoolu Country 324 Still on the cumbrous omnium moves, By twelve or fourteen oxen towed.
4. ‘A piece of furniture with open shelves for receiving ornamental articles, etc.’ (Cent. Dict.) |