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<hw>Ac`tu*al"i*ty</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Actualities</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <def>The state of being actual; reality; <as>as, the <ex>actuality</ex> of God's nature</as>.</def>

<i>South.</i>

<h1>Actualization</h1> <Xpage=19>

<hw>Ac`tu*al*i*za"tion</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A making actual or really existent.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Emerson.</i>

<h1>Actualize</h1> <Xpage=19>

<hw>Ac"tu*al*ize</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To make actual; to realize in action.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Coleridge.</i>

<h1>Actually</h1> <Xpage=19>

<hw>Ac"tu*al*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Actively.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "Neither <i>actually</i> . . . nor passively."

<i>Fuller.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>In act or in fact; really; in truth; positively.</def>

<h1>Actualness</h1> <Xpage=19>

<hw>Ac"tu*al*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Quality of being actual; actuality.</def>

<h1>Actuarial</h1> <Xpage=19>

<hw>Ac`tu*a"ri*al</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of or pertaining to actuaries; <as>as, the <ex>actuarial</ex> value of an annuity</as>.</def>

<h1>Actuary</h1> <Xpage=19>

<hw>Ac"tu*a*ry</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Actuaries</plw> <tt>(#)</tt>.</plu> <ety>[L. <ets>actuarius</ets> copyist, clerk, fr. <ets>actus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>agere</ets> to do, act.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>A registar or clerk; -- used originally in courts of civil law jurisdiction, but in Europe used for a clerk or registar generally.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>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.</def>

<h1>Actuate</h1> <Xpage=19>

<hw>Ac"tu*ate</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Actuated</er> <tt>(#)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Actuating</er> <tt>(#)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[LL. <ets>actuatus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>actuare</ets>, fr. L. <ets>actus</ets> act.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote>Wings, which others were contriving to <b>actuate</b> by the perpetual motion. <i>Johnson.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Men of the greatest abilities are most fired with ambition; and, on the contrary, mean and narrow minds are the least <b>actuated</b> by it. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To carry out in practice; to perform.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "To <i>actuate</i> what you command."

<i>Jer. Taylor.</i>

<syn>Syn. -- To move; impel; incite; rouse; instigate; animate.</syn>

<h1>Actuate</h1> <Xpage=19>

<hw>Ac"tu*ate</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[LL. <ets>actuatus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>actuare</ets>.]</ety> <def>Put in action; actuated.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>