In this slumbry agitation, besides her walking, and otheractuall performances, what (at any time) haue you heard her say?
1650,Jeremy Taylor,The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living:
Let your holy and pious intention beactual; that is[…] by a special prayer or action,[…] given to God.
1946,The American Ecclesiastical Review, volume114:
Apparently, the holy Doctor was referring toactual, rather than original, sin; yet the basis of his argument for Mary's holiness, the divine maternity, would logically lead to the conclusion that she was free from original sin also.
The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, so that theactual structure which had come down to posterity retained the secret magic of a promise rather than the overpowering splendour of a great architectural achievement.
1790,Edmund Burke,Reflections on the revolution in France:
If this be youractual 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.
c.1793,Edward Gibbon,Memoirs of My Life, Penguin, published1990, page85:
To myactual feelings it seems incredible that I could ever believe that I believed in Transubstantiation!
Used as intensifier to emphasise a following noun;exact,specific,very.[from 18th c.]
[H]ow the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure. Yet this is the level of organisation that does theactual thinking—and is, presumably, the seat of consciousness.
In most Romance, Slavic and Germanic languages the cognate ofactual means “current”. This meaning has also been used in English since the sixteenth century but is now rare due to asemantic shift.
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(finance) something actually received; real receipts, as distinct from estimated ones.
(military) a radiocallsignmodifier that specifies the commanding officer of the unit or asset denoted by the remainder of the callsign and not the officer's assistant or other designee.
Bravo SixActual, this is Charlie One. Come in, over.
The radio operator is requesting to speak to the commander of the unit under the call sign "Bravo Six", as opposed to any available member of the unit.
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 theactual.
pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) ofatual; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and may occur as a sporadic misspelling
2020 July 9, Carlos E. Cué, Miguel González, “Sánchez plantea revisar la inviolabilidad del Rey en la Constitución”, inEl País[1], archived fromthe original on10 July 2020:
Cuando se le preguntó si se está buscando “alguna salida” para el rey emérito, Calvo respondió que el futuro de Juan Carlos I “compete fundamentalmente a la decisión que tome el jefe de la Casa Real, que es elactual rey Felipe VI”.
Actual is afalse friend and does not mean the same as the English wordactual. Spanish equivalents are shown above, in the "Translations" section of the English entryactual.
