TOTIPBESENCE.
1611 COTGR., Qw>ttite t an euen assessement, a rate or
totquot imposed ; the laying on euerie one his share.
2 +
t
f. Tod, v. Obs.
embryo. \y^Anter. Nat. July-Aug.so4\Vhile mthis species
also the material is totipotent, yet when the determining
influence of polarity is removed the stronger tendency is to
produce a tail. 1909 J. W. JENKINSON Experitn. Einbryol.
281 In very many, though not in all, instances the parts of the
ovum blastomeres or egg fragments are totipotent. ..The
totipotence is, however, sooner or later lost. Ibid. 76 From
other sources also there is evidence of a progressive loss of
Sea Urchin
06s. nonce-wd.
totipotentiality of the parts.
t
Totipre Sent,
+ PRESENT
1911
a.
To-trea
tredan TREAD
MHG.
f To-treading
[f.
as
part
Totnam
Totle,
II
Toto
L.
lotus
:
TOTTLE
see
all,
.i,
whence a
neut.
Toto
=
by the whole world ;
1727 POPE Art of Sinking i. Wks.
(f ibi),
fl. A swing; a board suspended by two ropes,
on which a person sits and is swung to and fro.
1387 TREVISA//^M (Rolls) II. 387 Whan men [fel] of
be tptres and were i-herte sore, it was ordeyned among hem
bodies schulde be sette in be totros,
in stede of hem bat were a-falle.
pat
c 1440 Promp. Pan
cleped ocillum in Latyn.
oscillum, 1468
498/1 Totyr, or myry totyr, chylderys game
Medulla Gram.^Oscillu)n^ genus ludi, cum funis suspenditur
a trabe in quo pueri et puelle sedentes impelluntur hue et
a totoure. Petaurus^ quidam ludus, a totre. 1483
jlluc,
Cath. AngL 300/2 A mery Totyr (A. A Totyr), petaurus^ fy
cetera.
1552 HuLOET, Totter playe, betwene two bell ropes
pat images i-liche to
game
differ *toto orbe
I
from Waterland.
:
forming compound
-o),
(see
normal form
a. in
adjs.,
toli-
sense
utterly
;
.
totter or
.
demned as rude, troublesome, and
SIR W. HAMILTON Discuss. (1852) 162
"toto-officious,
*Toto-total
another grass with slender stalk ; to tter-hea ded
totterfrivolous, changeful ;
., light-headed,
kneed
1833
alL
|
1.
Ecd.
A
Sympathy The feelings of the *totterknee d.
Totter, sb? see TOT sb.b
t Totter, a. Obs. rare 1 . In 4 totyre.
[If genuine, goes with TOTTER v. (but it may be a copyist
i
:
Tottering, shaky, unstable, insecure.
c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints xxviii. (Margaret} 42 pe wikit
warld scho ourcom als, pat ay is totyre, fekil, & fals.
tw
Also 3-5 toter, 6 tottre.
Totter
[Appears first c 1 200 ; has the form of a frequenta
dispensation or licence to hold as
Tot-quot then).
indefinite or infinite
2.
An
number
;
as
many
as
like.
Kepi.
toties, quoties,
Harding
y\\\.
(1611) 360 He pleadeth his
erect a whole totquot of
and thereby would
By these words, M. Hardings Tot.
Masses, sans number.
quot is much abridged.
rate or tax assessed in proportion to income.
3.
.
A
.
s
error for TOLTER).)
be).]
ecclesiastical benefices as the holder pleases
JEWEL
198 And *totter-grass, in many a trembling knot. 1909
Spectator 10 July 48/2 The ox-eye daisies white among the
/>.,
CV
;
1565
;
and sorrel. 1662 PETTY Taxes ii.
14 The
things which cause animosities among the *totter-headed
multitude.
1887 G. MEREDITH Ballads fy
Whimper of
2.
or can get hence, the holding of such benefices,
unlimited pluralism ; pi. benefices so held.
59 BARCLAY Shyp Folys (1570) 60 He hath hope To haue
another^benefyce of greater dignitie, And so maketh a false
suggestion to the pope, For a tot quot or els a pluralitie.
1512 SKELTON Why not to Court! 125 We shall haue a tot
quot From the Pope of Rome, a 1550 Image Ifocr. I. in
Sktlton s Wks. (1843) II. 420/2 Ye drawe and cast lottes,
In hattes and in pottes, I or tottes and for quottes. 1583
STUBBES Anal. Abus. 11. (1882) 79 They purchase a dis
pensation, a licence,.. by vertue whereof they may hold
totquots so manie, how manie soeuer. 1637 BASTWICK Litany
n. 9 The Pope selleth nonresidences, pluralityes, trialityes,
totquots, the Prelats doe the same.
b. trans/. One who holds
tot-quots; an un
limited pluralist.
1628 P. SMART Serm. Durk. Catk. 7 July 31 The same
will be also a notorious Non-resident, a
very Tot-quot. 1677
W. HUGHES Man of Sin 11. iv. 81 S. Wereburga,.. being
Governess of three Nunneries (being no more, she wai no
you
.
totter-grass
To-torve, To-tose, To-tray, etc. see Tot Tot-quot. Obs. [L. tot quot as much or as
many
weak-kneed
both ends of a long Pole, or Timber-log (supported only in
the middle) lift one another vp and downe.
x888ELWORTHY
IV. Somerset Word-bk* s. v., 1 ant a-zeed no such two double
totterarse is longful time.
1821 CLARE Vill. Minstr. II.
Ton
may
*
a. t yielding,
i6nCoTGR., Baccoler^Q play at titter-totter, or at *totterto ride the wild Mare; as children who sitting vpon
arse
Toto-partial
many
slip.
and Comb, (or from the verb-stem), as
t (a) the game of see-saw ; = TITTERTOTTER i ; () one who totters (dial.) ; tottergrass, quaking-grass, Briza media, or sometimes
all is
:
a
3. attrib.
To-tog,
as (there
fro,
totter-arse,
all is some.
variant of To-TUG v. Obs.
t To-to-11, v. Obs. [ME. f. To- 2 +
w.i to
draw.] trans. To pull or drag hither and thither.
f 1325 Poem times Edvi. [I (Percy) lix, Hit schal be totolled, hit schal be totwyjt [v.r. Hit shal be forpinched,
totoilled &
Ibid. Ixi, Hit is so to-tolled, bothe
totwihtj.
heder & theder Hit is halfendel istole, ar hit be brout
Artn.
togeder.
fy Merl. (Kolbing) 8531 pe heben
4:1330
me tok & totoued, Tobeten, todrawe & defoiled.
. .
Qitat. Nwiss. Wks. 99 The hands trimbling and the feete
totteryng. 1576 PKTTIE Petite Pallace 33 As a tree hewen
downe with axes, redy to fal.., tottereth euery way, being
vncertayne which way to fal. 1697 DRYDKN sEneid n. 384
Troy nods from high, and totters to her fall. 1775 SHERIDAN
St. Pair. Day n. ii, I was. .taken with a sudden
giddiness,
.
and Humphrey seeing me beginning
<v
:
!
expressing instability or
tot- y
;
&
Du. touteren to swing, though
connect this phonologically
,
i
intr.
To swing
:
and
to
it
is
difficult
TOLTEB #.]
fro, esp. at the
to
cf.
end
of a rope Jig. to waver, vacillate. Obs.
ciaoo Vices ty Virtues 135 Ne mid fote sitten toterinde.
1387 TREVISA Higdcn (Rolls) II. 387 Men of Athene heng
ayer and men totrede beronand meued hider
vp ropes m
andjnder[fln^.hucetillucagitabantur]. Ibid, [see TOTTER
sb* x]. *rx44o Promp. Parv. 498/1 Toteron, or waveron,
vacillo. xs$a [see TOTTER^. i ]. 1594 PLAT Jewetl-ho. in.
;
|>e
47 It should seem that before the breaking of the yolke, that
the yolke did hang playing or tottering within the whjte.
1601 SHAKS. Alfs Well\. iii. 129 Manie likelihoods, .which
bung so tottring in the ballance.
fb.
spec.
To
swing from the gallows, to be
hanged. Ob s.
!
;
;
.
.
!
vs, the State totters. 1641 MILTON C/i. Govl. i.Wks. 1851 1 1 1.
ico So long as the Church is mounted upon the Prelatical!
Cart, .it will but shake and totter. 1719 YOUNG Revengti\,\,
O forbear! You totter on the very brink of ruin, a 1774
TUCKER Lt. Nat. (1834)
173 Their faith. .will be apt to
shake and totter grievously in the storms of opposition.
j. 221 From the day of Cressy
1874 GREEN Short Hist. v.
feudalism tottered slowly but surely to its grave.
c.
To
t
oscillate, vibrate, rock (without any
notion of falling). Obs. rare.
1668 CULPEPPER & COLE Barthol. Anat. \. xi. 27 The use
of which bones, is to hinder that the valve do not easily
totter.
1678 MO.XON Mech. Exerc. iv. 64 Not letting the
Plain totter to or from you-wards.
H
4. To walk or move with unsteady steps to go
shakily or feebly; to toddle; also, to walk with
difficulty ; to reel, stagger.
i6oa MARSTON Ant. t, Mel. I. Wks. 1856 I. 17 He totterd
from the reeling decke. 1796 MORSE Amer. Gcog. II. 489
;
Chinese women.. may be said to totter rather than to walk.
1797 DOWNING Disorders Horned Cattle., etc. 106 When
the staggers and convulsive symptoms arise, the horse.. is
1818 SCOTT Br.
feeble, reels and totters about as he moves.
xix, The old blind woman arose, assumed her staff,
Lamm,
.tottering to her hut.
1863 W. C. BALDWIN Afr. Hunting
280 Three niggers staggering after us with as much as
ever they could tetter under.
b. trans, (nonce-uses.) (a)
make (one s way)
.
vii.
To
(b~) To carry with tottering steps.
totteringly.
1846 MRS. GORE Etig. C/iar. (1852) 57 Poor Corney tottered
his way from the miserable cellar of St, Giles s
towards the
fashionable quarter of the town.
1864 LOWELL Fireside
Trav. 280 After our little bearers [mules] had tottered us up
and down the dusky steeps.
. .
1 5. trans. To cause to shake to and fro, to rock ;
to render unstable.
Also_/ff. Obs.
1615 T. ADAMS White Dcvill 45 There is some disobedient
and fugitive Jonasses that thus totter our ship, a 1625
FLETCHER Hum. Lieut, l. i, Earthquakes To shake and
totter my
designs, a 1693 Urqitkart s Rabelais in. Prol. 7
He.-totter d it, lifted it, ..transpos d it, transplaced it.
Totterdemal(l;ion,
t
Tottered
variant of
obs.
(tp taJd),
f.
ppl
TATTERDEMALION.
a.
TATTERED, and used
Obs.
[Orig.
in that sense
a
(cf.
Norw. dial, totra rag); subsequently associated with
TOTTER v., and more or less assimilated in sense.]
1. = TATTERED 2, 3.
1570 FOXE A. ff J/. (ed. 2) 1357/1 He.. was not so dis
guised in hys tottered attyre, but that hys countenaunce
gaue signification [etc.].
1506 SHAKS. l Hen. IV, iv. ii. 37
A
hundred and
fiftie
totter
d Prodigalls, lately come from
of her Person.
2. Of a building or a ship : Battered and shaken,
rendered ruinous and liable to fall ; in a tottering
condition.
1615 G. SANDYS Trav. 178
A tottered Tower doth chal
lenge regard for the waste recelued in that places protection.
1649-50 in Swayne Saruttt Churchu>. Ace, (1896) 221 Car
penter pulling down y tottered selling over y* East end of
the Chancell.
1689 SHERLOCK Disc. Death (1715^ 26
Merciless waves even overwhelm his tottered and decayed
vessel.
1808 SCOTT Marm. iv. xi, Thy turrets rude, and
tottered Keep, Have been the minstrel s loved resort,
3.
Made
to totter, shaken, reeling, rare*
SANDYS Ovid s Met.
(1626) 317 The hot horses
ragged rocks the totterd charriot driuc: While I to
1621 G.
>v.
..O r
curb their furie vainly
striue.
TOTTER v. + -ER i.]
(tp tarsi).
[f.
totters, or walks with tottering steps.
1711 SWIFT Jrnl, to Stella 21 Apr., I am much better
lhan 1 was, though something of a totterer. 1817 Blacfav.
Totterer
One who
Mag. XXII. 702 He snatched the
little totterers.
.up in his
anus,
c 1530 Hickscorner B ij b, That is a knauysshe sight to se
them totter on a beme. 154* UDALL Erosm. Apoph. 122
Diogenes had a greate zele to see theim euery one swyng.
yng
tottreyng in halters. 1556 J. HKVWOOD Spider $ F.
&
my
-
Perh. from Norse cf. Norw.
dial, tutra, totra to quiver, shake (Ross), Sw. dial.
The sense is found in Flem.
tut Ira (Rietz).
f 1.
to totter, ran to
1836 MARRYAT Alicts/i. Easy xxx, Her main
mast was seen to totter, and then to fall over the side.
b. fig. or in fig. context.
1610 SHAKS. Tctitf. in. ii. S If th other two be brain d like
)>
from a stem
unstable movement.
tive
.
assistance.
,
.
(see -o i), as to toconge nital, to to-mu te, to to-offl cious b. in
sense
total and
-o
(see
2), as To to-pa rtial
Logic, applied to a proposition in which one term
is universal and the other particular; so To toto/tal, having both terms universal.
1890 Q. Rev. Jan. 68 The marriage of *toto-congenital
deaf mutes.
1893 F. W. BOOTH World s Congr. Instruct.
Deaf 59 The German semi-mute brought to a study of
has
a
decided
English
advantage over his *toto-mute brother.
1586 in J. Morris Trout. Cath. Forefathers (1877) 69 Con
entirely, wholly,
and
.
petaurum.
2. The action, or an act, of tottering; wavering,
oscillation ; an unsteady or shaky movement or gait
as of one ready to fall.
1747 E. POSTON Pratler I, i My Mind is so on the Totter
between For and Against. 1751 JOHNSON Rambler No.
109 f 8, I .had his bend in my shoulders, and his totter in
my gait. 1830 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 35/2 He seemed all of
a totter and tremble. 1898 WATTB-DUHTOH Aylwin n. iv,
Without raising an arm to balance her body, without a
Toto, totOO (i6th c.), i. e. too too see Too.
TotO-, used as combining form of L. iotus whole,
in certain cases, instead of the
gece
.
.
Laud Troy Bk. 9717 Thei sat toterynge as it were
What for the strokes & the hete. 1522 MORE DC
c 1400
J>e
is
to tottre to
Here
<r
to tremble.
and rneue and totery
tola c&lo.
1751 VI. 167 In their
others [pieces] they differ d *toto cxlo 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. A rchit.
xvi. (1879) II. 234 The dome [of the Pantheon].. differs toto
(1839) IV. 232
3. To rock or shake to and fro on its
base, as if
about to overbalance or collapse ; f in quot. 1400,
Totter (tjnsi), sb
Forms: 4-5 totre, 5
Cf.
totyr, totoure, 6- totter,
[f. TOTTER v.
Du.
touter
in sense i.]
Flem.,
(and WFris.)
of
a few
in
occurring
cselo (Vu-t0 srb),
phrases
whole
the
heaven
as
much
as the distance
by
, by
between the poles, diametrically; in quot. 1844
attrib. entire, absolute; Toto genere
(d^e-nerj),
in the whole nature or character ;
Toto orbe
in literary use, as
lesse floud.
;
TOTTENHAM.
and
masc.
abl. sing.
whole, entire :
(tJu-to),
;
13.. E. E.Allit.P. C. 233 penne bajhertakel weretorne,
bat totered on ybez. c 1400 Laud Troy Bk. ^294 Other ..
In the water swam and flotered, And there schlppis a-boute
lotered.
1596 Edward III, m. i. 170 Then might ye see
the reeling vessels split, And
tottering sink into the ruth-
Tottenham
,
,
fall.
1 2. To move up and down or to and fro, as a
ship on the waves to toss, to pitch. Obs.
you rschall here a totted frere Say Stryke pantnere ; And
in y cope leve ry^t noujt.
(t^*t nam). In 6 Totnam. Name
of a northern suburb of London,
f Tottenham is
turned French^ a proverb used in reference to any
unlikely or remarkable change.
Z 546 J- HEY WOOD Prov. (1867)
14 Their faces told toles,
that Totnam was tournd frenche.
1581 A. HALL Iliad iv.
60 Do what thou canst, the time \vil come that Totnam
French shal turn The Gods and I will so prouide. a 1661
FULLER Worthies, Middlesex (1662) n. 178.
see
for the genitive here denotes the whole
taken.
you
D
;
:
is
t
Totsane, Tott(e, obs. ff. TUTSAN, TOT.
fTo-tted, ppl. a. Obs. rare~ l . [? related to
TOT j.i] ? Muddle-headed or = TOTTY a?
1480 Kyng $ Hennyt 348 in Hazl. E.P.P. I. 26 And
TOTIENT.
Totive (tou-tiv), a. nonce-wd.
[f. L. tot-us
whole + -IVB.] Denoting a whole see quot.
1874 KEY Language xviii. 225 A leading use of the genilive is that called partitive
but might more fitly be called
totive
lose
OHG.
dit.J
A
:
FLETCHER & SHIRLEY Night-Walker in. v, I would
a limb, to see their rogueships totter.
o. To play at see-saw. Cf. TITTER-TOTTER.
PALSGR. 760/1, I totter to and fro, as chylder do
153
whan they play.., je ballance.. .Totter nat to moche leste
l62 3-33
vbl. sb.
72$ C orpus Gloss. (Hessels)
77 Dcsicit [? .Divert], tetri1175 Lamb, Horn. 133 Sum [feoljbi be weieand werS
to-treden and fu^eles hit freten.
13.. K. Alls. 3946 (Bodl.
MS.) Horses totraden alle be Boukes Of noble Barouns & of
Dukes. 1382 WYCLIF Prov. xxvii. 7 The soule fulfild shal
to-trede the hony comb. 1535 COVERDALE Iso. x xviii. iSThe
greate destruction, .shal all to treade you.
[c
292.
existence in a sphere or portion of space sufficient to receive
the action of many corporeal particles, we may term a totitotipresence throughout the contents of that sphere...
presence throughout all immensity amounts to the same as
omnipresence. Ibid. 409 There is a certain portion of space
throughout which we are totipresent, because we can
receive the action of many corporeal particles at once which
cannot be brought into contact with a mathematical point.
Totitive
xv. 13 If they be had, they shall hang therupone, And ye;
they totter twenty togyther, Still do theeues rob there.
if
*satretant
ze-, zertreten, Ger. zertreten.]
trans* To trample down, trample upon.
Hence
cf.
:
[OK. totredan,
So OS. te-tredan,
v.
t
Present
omnipresent^
throughout the whole of a space. So ) Totipre sence, the fact of being totipresent.
1768 TUCKER Lt. Nat. (1834) I. 337 Our own manner of
prec.
TOTTERING.
179
has the possibility of becoming the median plane of the
.
1890 [see next].
To-ttering, vbl. sb.
TOTTER v. +-ING!.]
of the verb TOTTER; oscillation, waver
The
action
ing,
shaking as
.
if
about to
[f.
fall.
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