[f. TOTAL a. and sb.]
1. a. trans. To reach the total of, amount to.
1859. All Year Round, No. 13. 305. One of our adversaries scored 70 off his own bat: they totalled 138.
1884. Pall Mall G., 22 Aug., 2/2. The proofs actually issued in neither case totalled 1,000.
1901. Cycl. Tour. Cl. Gaz., Oct., 389. A list [of accidents] … totals no less than twenty.
b. intr. To amount to, mount up to.
1880. Scotsman, 24 Jan. For the whole of 1879 they probably totalled up to between 16 and 17 millions.
1896. Daily News, 23 Jan., 7/5. Even the 5s. or 10s. required as deposit on each ticket must total to a large amount.
2. trans. To bring to a total, add up, complete.
1716. M. Davies, Athen. Brit., III. 99. One, if not both of those Collectors dy’d … before those Collections were total’d.
1863. P. Barry, Dockyard Econ., 23. The rating, valuing, totalling, and proving of workmanship notes in the Accountant’s department.
1894. Cath. News, 16 June, 4/5. The heavy legal costs … if totalled up, would strike our readers with surprise.
