GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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   Actual , a. [OE. actuel, F. actuel, L. actualis, fr. agere to do, act.]
   Involving or comprising action; active. [Obs.]
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   Her walking and other actual performances.
   Shak.
   
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   Let your holy and pious intention be actual; that is . . . by a special prayer or action, . . . given to God.
   Jer. Taylor.
   
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   Existing in act or reality; really acted or acting; in fact; real; -- opposed to potential, possible, virtual, speculative, conceivable, theoretical, or nominal; as, the actual cost of goods; the actual case under discussion.
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   In action at the time being; now exiting; present; as the actual situation of the country.
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   Actual cautery. See under Cautery. -- Actual sin (Theol.), that kind of sin which is done by ourselves in contradistinction to “original sin.”
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   Syn. -- Real; genuine; positive; certain. See Real.
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   Actual , n. (Finance) Something actually received; real, as distinct from estimated, receipts. [Cant]
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   The accounts of revenues supplied . . . were not real receipts: not, in financial language, “actuals,” but only Egyptian budget estimates.
   Fortnightly Review.
   
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