Pl. sums-total, sum-totals. [ad. med.L. summa tōtālis: see SUM sb.1 and TOTAL a. Cf. F. somme totale.] The aggregate of all the items in an account; the total amount (of things capable of numeration).
c. 1395. Plowman’s Tale, I. 418. The hye goodes frendship hem makes, They toteth on hir somme totall.
c. 1430. Art of Nombryng, vi. 9. Ioyne the produccioun, and þere wol be the some totalle.
1497. Naval Acc. Hen. VII. (1896), 325. Somme Totell of almaner Costes Charges & Expences. Ibid., 330. Somme Totall of all Stuff Takle & Apparell ordinance Artillarie & Abillamentes of warre.
1543. Fitzherb., Surv., 30. To knowe the hole charge of all the partyculers, What they be at the first syght, in the sommes totall.
1533. More, Debell. Salem, Wks. 1024/1. He bringeth forth here a fewe amountyng in a some totall to the infinite number of fower.
1675. Cocker, Morals, 4. Compute your Sins Sum-Total for a Year.
1743. Bulkeley & Cummins, Voy. S. Seas, Pref. p. xx. The Sum Total we shall ever receive for our Voyage to the South-Seas.
1856. N. Brit. Rev., XXVI. 91. In the terms of peace made with France, a sum-total was agreed on for the whole debt.
1864. Intell. Observ., VI. 273. The Mint is each day engaged in adding to the sums total.
1865. Mrs. Gaskell, Wives & Dau., xxii. Every time the sum-totals came to different amounts.
b. gen. The aggregate or totality of.
1660. Jer. Taylor, Worthy Commun., i. § 2. 38. There are two great Sermons of the Gospel which are the summe total and abreviature of the whole word of God.
1729. Butler, Serm., Wks. 1874, II. 145. These particular enjoyments make up the sum total of our happiness.
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., II. III. ii. The diseased things that were spoken, done, the sum-total whereof is the French Revolution.
1875. Punch, 22 May, 215/1. The [Parliamentary] Session will, in that case, have done something to lessen the sum-total of human suffering.
1878. John Fiske, in N. Amer. Rev., CXXVI. 35. Throughout the world the sum-total of motion is ever the same.
1906. E. Anwyl, Celtic Relig., i. 5. To the sum-total of these religious ideas contributions have been made from many sources.
Hence Sum-totalize v. trans. and intr., to reckon or state the sum-total, to sum up; whence Sum-totalization, summing up.
1840. Haliburton, Clockm., Ser. III. ii. 26. But to sum-totalize my story: the next time [etc.]. Ibid. (1855), Nat. & Hum. Nat., I. 18. Maxims and saws are the sumtotalization of a thing.
1865. W. G. Palgrave, Arabia, I. 29. To decide on the value of each separate coin, and after that to sum-totalize.
