toto caelo

American  

[toh-toh kahy-loh, toh-toh see-loh] / ˈtoʊ toʊ ˈkaɪ loʊ, ˈtoʊ toʊ ˈsi loʊ /

adverb

Latin.

1. by the entire extent of the heavens; diametrically.

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toto caelo

I have listened," said he, "with equal edification and pleasure to the classic discourse of our friend, sparkling with gems alike of intellect and fancy, but I differ from him toto caelo.

From Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis by Benjamin Perley Poore

So far, so good; but where local agents differed toto caelo in capacity and character, where the personnel was continually changing, the outcome was necessarily varied.

From The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

Mr. Buckle does not think much of the ancient Egyptian civilization, differing in this respect toto caelo from Hekekyan Bey, who finds in the monuments proofs of the existence of an expansive popular government.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 66, April, 1863 by Various

But, finally, the people found themselves confronted with a type of Messiah differing toto caelo from the accepted traditional type. 

From Gloria Crucis addresses delivered in Lichfield Cathedral Holy Week and Good Friday, 1907 by J. H. (Joseph Hugh) Beibitz

It is omitted also in the Armenian version, which, except for the later translation by Sahak from Syriac, might be supposed to differ toto caelo from the Latin in country and genius.

From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener