Actualize
to make or real; turn into action or fact.
Contemporary Examples
Zero Dark Thirty will be remembered as her personal journey and struggle to actualize what for so long seemed impossible.
From ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ to ‘Medal of Honor’ Video Game: The SEAL Team Six Gift Guide Benjamin Schor December 18, 2012
Regardless of the obstacles in her path, she was tirelessly determined to actualize her vision for equality.
Libyan Activist Pays Tribute To Slain Spiritual Sister Anonymous June 26, 2014
Historical Examples
Not to actualize the idea of the Church, only to strive after its actualization, is the task of a religious communion.
The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 E. Rameur
He could thus prove line-rotation without even being able to actualize in his experience such a rotation.
The Mystery of Space Robert T. Browne
They sought to actualize what their predecessors tried to symbolise.
The Book of Tea Kakuzo Okakura
There is no special corporeal potentiality (to speak in Aristotelian language) which it is destined to actualize.
Aristotle George Grote
But ideas have occult power, and ideas, when rightly planted and rightly tended, are the seeds that actualize material conditions.
Thoughts I Met on the Highway Ralph Waldo Trine
But none of us were prepared to actualize practically the ideal life of which we dreamed.
Concord Days A. Bronson Alcott
Ceremonial deeds are used to actualize free contacts with Reality.
The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day Evelyn Underhill
She has only to open her mouth and the innate aptitudes of air rush in to actualize her creative wish.
Among the Forces Henry White Warren
verb (transitive)
to make actual or real
to represent realistically
v.
1810, first attested in Coleridge, from actual + -ize. Related: Actualized; actualizing.
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the doctrine that all reality is animate or in motion.
- Actualistic
the doctrine that all reality is animate or in motion.
- Actuality
existence; reality. an condition or circumstance; fact: Space travel is now an actuality. Contemporary Examples But in actuality, the novel contains ample material that points to a real and specific time and place. This Week’s Hot Reads: April 14, 2014 Charles Shafaieh April 13, 2014 In actuality, an encounter with a goddess of the underworld […]
- Actualization
the act or process of . Psychology, . Historical Examples Besides, even if actualization be contemporaneous with potentiality, why should not the first rank be assigned to actualization? Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 3 Plotinos (Plotinus) Hence the process itself is the actualization of the potential. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy Isaac Husik He had […]
- Actually
as an or existing fact; really. Contemporary Examples But the idea that he thinks this can just stop there is preposterous, not to say revolting, actually. Wayne LaPierre, Blaming Everything but Guns Michael Tomasky December 20, 2012 While Hayek, by contrast, is more slippery and much less helpful when it comes to determining what government […]