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Origin and history of actualize

actualize(v.)

"to make actual," 1810, first attested in Coleridge, from actual + -ize. Related: Actualized; actualizing.

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early 14c., "pertaining to acts or an action;" late 14c. in the broader sense of "real, existing" (as opposed to potential, ideal, etc.); from Old French actuel "now existing, up to date" (13c.), from Late Latin actualis "active, pertaining to action," adjectival form of Latin actus "a doing" (from PIE root *ag- "to drive, draw out or forth, move").

chiefly British English spelling of actualize. For suffix, see -ize. Related: Actualised; actualising.

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