Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Actuary

Actuary ({not transcribed}) , noun

[Latin actuarius copyist, clerk, from actus, past participle 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.