Ac"tu*al (&?;), n.
(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.
Fortnightly Review.
Ac"tu*al (#; 135), a.
[OE. actuel, F. actuel, L. actualis, fr. agere to
do, act.]
1.
Involving or comprising action; active.
[Obs.]
Her walking and other actual
performances.
Shak.
Let your holy
and pious intention be actual; that is . . . by a special prayer or action, . . . given to God.
Jer. Taylor.
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.
Actual cautery. See under Cautery. -- Actual sin (Theol.),
that kind of sin which
is done by ourselves in contradistinction to
"original sin."
Syn. --
Real; genuine; positive; certain. See Real.
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