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.