Actual
Actual (#; 135) , adjective
[Old English actuel, French actuel, Latin actualis, from agere to do, act.]
1.
Involving or comprising action; active. [Obsolete]
Her walking and other actual performances.
Let your holy and pious intention be actual; that is... by a special prayer or action,... given to God.
2.
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.
3.
In action at the time being; now exiting; present; as the actual situation of the country.
Collocations (2)
Actual cautery , See under Cautery.
Actual sin (Theology) , that kind of sin which is done by ourselves in contradistinction to “original sin.”
Actual ({not transcribed}) , noun
(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.