[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

actual \ac"tual\ ; 135, a. oe. actuel, f. actuel, l.
   actualis, fr. agere to do, act.
   1. involving or comprising action; active. obs.
      1913 webster

            her walking and other actual performances. --shak.
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            let your holy and pious intention be actual; that is
            . . . by a special prayer or action, . . . given to
            god.                                  --jer. taylor.
      1913 webster

   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.
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   3. in action at the time being; now exiting; present; as the
      actual situation of the country.
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   actual cautery. see under cautery.

   actual sin theol., that kind of sin which is done by
      ourselves in contradistinction to "original sin."
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   syn: real; genuine; positive; certain. see real.
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see also:
potential possible virtual speculative conceivable theoretical 
nominal actual cautery cautery actual sin real 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

cautery \cau"tery\, n.; pl. cauteries. l. cauterium, gr. ?.
   see cauter.
   1. med. a burning or searing, as of morbid flesh, with a
      hot iron, or by application of a caustic that will burn,
      corrode, or destroy animal tissue.
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   2. the iron of other agent in cauterizing.
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   actual cautery, a substance or agent as a hot iron which
      cauterizes or sears by actual heat; or the burning so
      effected.

   potential cautery, a substance which cauterizes by chemical
      action; as, lunar caustic; also, the cauterizing produced
      by such substance.
      1913 webster
see also:
cauteries cauter actual cautery potential cautery 

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