abl. sing. masc. and neut. of L. tōtus all, whole, entire: occurring in a few phrases in literary use, as Toto cælo, ‘by the whole heaven,’ by as much as the distance between the poles, diametrically; in quot. 1844 attrib. entire, absolute; Toto genere, in the whole nature or character; Toto orbe, ‘by the whole world’; = toto cælo.
1727. Pope, Art of Sinking, i. Wks. 1751, VI. 167. In their others [pieces] they differ’d *toto cælo from us.
1844. W. G. Ward, Ideal Chr. Ch. (ed. 2), 272. The toto-coelo difference in kind between [etc.].
a. 1878. Sir G. G. Scott, Lect. Archit., xvi. (1879), II. 234. The dome [of the Pantheon] … differs toto cælo from the normal mode of construction.
1672. Boyle, Orig. & Virt. Gems, I. 49. Bodies, that differ *toto genere, as Metals and Stones.
a. 1834. Coleridge, in Lit. Rem. (1839), IV. 232. Here I differ *toto orbe from Waterland.
