Category:Actual

Ac"tu*al (#; 135), a. Etym: [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, coceivable, 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.

Actual Ac"tu*al, n. (Finance)

Defn: 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.