adv. [f. TOTAL a. + -LY2: cf. Schol.L. totāliter, or, totalement (Oresme, 14th c.).] In a total manner or degree; wholly, completely, entirely, altogether.
1509. Hawes, Past. Pleas., xliv. (Percy Soc.), 216. Lyke as the worlde was distroyed totally By the virgins sone, so it semed well A virgins sone to redeme it pyteously.
1647. Clarendon, Hist. Reb., I. § 32. The Imprudence and Presumption … of carrying the Prince into Spain, was totally Forgotten.
1660. Blount, Boscobel, 23. Thus was the Royal Army totally subdued, thus dispersed.
1711. Addison, Spect., No. 121, ¶ 6. Tho’ the Mole be not totally blind (as it is commonly thought).
1815. W. H. Ireland, Scribbleomania, 30, note. He seems to be at present totally eclipsed by Walter Scott.
1882. Mrs. Pitman, Mission L. Greece & Pal., 155. It is totally beyond human effort to control the memory.
† b. In a body, collectively, in one lot. Obs. rare.
1676. Lond. Gaz., No. 1073/4. Divers Watches and Pocket Clocks … are to be Sold, either totally or severally, at his late shop,… on the back-side of the Royal Exchange, London.
