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toto caelo

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[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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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

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. Payne here differs, toto caelo, from Mr. Tylor, who finds no sufficient proof for wholly non-religious savages, and from Roskoff, who has disposed of the arguments of Sir John Lubbock.

From The Making of Religion by Andrew Lang

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

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