v. [f. TOTAL a. + -IZE: cf. F. totaliser (neologism in Littré).] trans. To make total; to combine into a total or aggregate. Hence Totalized ppl. a.; Totalizing vbl. sb. and ppl. a.; totalizing machine, a totalizator.
1818. Coleridge, 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.
1855. Bain, 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.
1865. Grote, Treat. Mor. Ideas, iv. (1876), 43. A number of partial views which we cannot harmonize and totalize or bring into a whole.
1888. Daily 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.
1888. Sci. 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.
