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Actual cautery
(gcide) | Actual \Ac"tu*al\ (#; 135), a. [OE. actuel, F. actuel, L.
actualis, fr. agere to do, act.]
1. Involving or comprising action; active. [Obs.]
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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.
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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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Actual cautery
(gcide) | Cautery \Cau"ter*y\, 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.
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