Syn. — Real; genuine; positive; certain. See Real.
Actual
(Ac"tu*al) n. (Finance) Something actually received; real, as distinct from estimated, receipts.
[Cant]
The accounts of revenues supplied . . . were not real receipts: not, in financial language, "actuals," but
only Egyptian budget estimates.
Fortnightly Review.
Actualist
(Ac"tu*al*ist), n. One who deals with or considers actually existing facts and conditions, rather
than fancies or theories; — opposed to idealist. J. Grote.
Actuality
(Ac`tu*al"i*ty) n.; pl. Actualities The state of being actual; reality; as, the actuality of God's
nature. South.
Actualization
(Ac`tu*al*i*za"tion) n. A making actual or really existent. [R.] Emerson.
Actualize
(Ac"tu*al*ize) v. t. To make actual; to realize in action. [R.] Coleridge.
Actually
(Ac"tu*al*ly), adv.
1. Actively. [Obs.] "Neither actually . . . nor passively." Fuller.
2. In act or in fact; really; in truth; positively.
Actualness
(Ac"tu*al*ness), n. Quality of being actual; actuality.
Actuarial
(Ac`tu*a"ri*al) a. Of or pertaining to actuaries; as, the actuarial value of an annuity.
Actuary
(Ac"tu*a*ry) n.; pl. Actuaries [L. actuarius copyist, clerk, fr. actus, p. p. of agere to do,
act.]
1. (Law) A registrar or clerk; — used originally in courts of civil law jurisdiction, but in Europe used for a
clerk or registrar generally.
2. The computing official of an insurance company; one whose profession it is to calculate for insurance
companies the risks and premiums for life, fire, and other insurances.
Actuate
(Ac"tu*ate) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Actuated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Actuating ] [LL. actuatus, p. p. of
actuare, fr. L. actus act.]
1. To put into action or motion; to move or incite to action; to influence actively; to move as motives do; —
more commonly used of persons.
Wings, which others were contriving to actuate by the perpetual motion.
Johnson.
Men of the greatest abilities are most fired with ambition; and, on the contrary, mean and narrow minds
are the least actuated by it.
Addison.
2. To carry out in practice; to perform. [Obs.] "To actuate what you command." Jer. Taylor.
Syn. — To move; impel; incite; rouse; instigate; animate.
