relating to a person's acts or deeds; active, practical
In this slumbry agitation, besides her walking, and other actuall performances, what (at any time) haue you heard her say?
in action at the time being; now existing; current.
If this be your actual situation, compared to the situation to which you were called, as it were by the voice of God and man, I cannot find it in my heart to congratulate you on the choice you have made, or the success which has attended your endeavours.
an actual, real one; notably:
Reality, usually with the definite article.
There was that desolate air about the chamber which is peculiar to an ill-furnished London room: cities need luxuries, were it only to conceal the actual.
From Middle English actual, actuel (“active”), from Anglo-Norman actuel, actual, and its source Late Latin actuālis (“active, practical”), from Latin actus (“act, action, performance”), from agere (“t...
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