TOTAL Copy link • TOTAL 1. adj., must be rendered by various turns of expression suited to the connection; for the words totus, universus, omnis, commonly given by lexicographers, can rarely or never be used. By circumlocution with plane, prorsus, etc. To destroy an enemy with total slaughter, hostem occidione occidere: to show total ignorance in anything, plane hospitem esse in re. 2. s. summa: solidum (the whole debt; opposed to to a small portion of it). To allow each item separately, and yet not allow the total, singula aera probare, summam quae ex his confecta sit non probare.