ACTUAL

ACT'UAL, adjective 1. Real or effective, or that exists truly and absolutely; as, actual heat, opposed to that, which is virtual or potential; actual cautery, or the burning by a red-hot iron, opposed to a cautery or caustic application, that may produce the same effect upon the body by a different process.2. Existing in act; real; in opposition to speculative, or existing in theory only; as an actual crime.3. In theology, actual sin is that which is committed by a person himself, opposed to original sin, or the corruption of nature supposed to be communicated from Adam.4. That includes action.Besides her walking and other actual performances. [Hardly legitimate.]

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actual. Actual, a. really in act, real, certain, positive

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Ac″tu‐al (#; 135), a. [[OE. actuel, F. actuel, L. actualis, fr. agere to do, act.]] 1. 1. Involving or comprising action; active.
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. 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. 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.