Meaning of toto caelo | Babel Free

Definitions

By diametrical opposition, as far apart as possible.

not-comparable

Examples

“All which three, viz. Things as they are in themselves knowable; Actions as they depend on us, in order to Happiness; and the right use of Signs in order to Knowledge, being toto cælo different, they seemed to me to be the three great Provinces of the intellectual World, wholly separate and distinct one from another.”

“The Ingævones, according to Pliny’s own account, were the Chauci, &c. who were all on the west, not the east, so that he errs toto cælo.”

“[…] where local agents differed toto cælo in capacity and character, where the personnel was continually changing, the outcome was necessarily varied.”

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