[L.: see TOTUM1.] A whole.
1657. J. Smith, Myst. Rhet., A viij b. Totum, is whatsoever hath parts:… and so parts are such as make up the whole.
a. 1658. Cleveland, On little Gentleman, 22. How comes it that she thus converts So small a Totum, and great Parts?
1678. Cudworth, 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.
