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v. i. To take one's self off; to decamp. [ A jocular word. U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being accented. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to accent; characterized or formed by accent. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being accentual. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an accentual manner; in accordance with accent. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Accentuated p. pr. & vb. n. Accentuating. ] [ LL. accentuatus, p. p. of accentuare, fr. L. accentus: cf. F. accentuer. ] 1. To pronounce with an accent or with accents. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To bring out distinctly; to make prominent; to emphasize. [ 1913 Webster ]

In Bosnia, the struggle between East and West was even more accentuated. London Times. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To mark with the written accent. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. accentuatio: cf. F. accentuation. ] Act of accentuating; applications of accent. Specifically (Eccles. Mus.), pitch or modulation of the voice in reciting portions of the liturgy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Accrument. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OF. acoint. See Acquaint, v. t. ] Acquainted. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Acquainted; p. pr. & vb. n. Acquainting. ] [ OE. aqueinten, acointen, OF. acointier, LL. adcognitare, fr. L. ad + cognitus, p. p. of cognoscere to know; con- + noscere to know. See Quaint, Know. ] 1. To furnish or give experimental knowledge of; to make (one) to know; to make familiar; -- followed by with. [ 1913 Webster ]

Before a man can speak on any subject, it is necessary to be acquainted with it. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. Isa. liii. 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To communicate notice to; to inform; to make cognizant; -- followed by with (formerly, also, by of), or by that, introducing the intelligence; as, to acquaint a friend with the particulars of an act. [ 1913 Webster ]

Acquaint her here of my son Paris' love. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

I must acquaint you that I have received
New dated letters from Northumberland. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To familiarize; to accustom. [ Obs. ] Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

To be acquainted with, to be possessed of personal knowledge of; to be cognizant of; to be more or less familiar with; to be on terms of social intercourse with. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To inform; apprise; communicate; advise. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. OF. acointable ]. Easy to be acquainted with; affable. [ Obs. ] Rom. of R. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. aqueintance, OF. acointance, fr. acointier. See Acquaint. ] 1. A state of being acquainted, or of having intimate, or more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal knowledge gained by intercourse short of that of friendship or intimacy; as, I know the man; but have no acquaintance with him. [ 1913 Webster ]

Contract no friendship, or even acquaintance, with a guileful man. Sir W. Jones. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A person or persons with whom one is acquainted. [ 1913 Webster ]

Montgomery was an old acquaintance of Ferguson. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In this sense the collective term acquaintance was formerly both singular and plural, but it is now commonly singular, and has the regular plural acquaintances. [ 1913 Webster ]

To be of acquaintance, to be intimate. --
To take acquaintance of or
with, to make the acquaintance of. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Familiarity; intimacy; fellowship; knowledge. -- Acquaintance, Familiarity, Intimacy. These words mark different degrees of closeness in social intercourse. Acquaintance arises from occasional intercourse; as, our acquaintance has been a brief one. We can speak of a slight or an intimate acquaintance. Familiarity is the result of continued acquaintance. It springs from persons being frequently together, so as to wear off all restraint and reserve; as, the familiarity of old companions. Intimacy is the result of close connection, and the freest interchange of thought; as, the intimacy of established friendship. [ 1913 Webster ]

Our admiration of a famous man lessens upon our nearer acquaintance with him. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

We contract at last such a familiarity with them as makes it difficult and irksome for us to call off our minds. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is in our power to confine our friendships and intimacies to men of virtue. Rogers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A state of being acquainted; acquaintance. Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. acointant, p. pr. ] An acquaintance. [ R. ] Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Personally known; familiar. See To be acquainted with, under Acquaint, v. t. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. State of being acquainted; degree of acquaintance. [ R. ] Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OE. actuel, F. actuel, L. actualis, fr. agere to do, act. ] 1. Involving or comprising action; active. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Her walking and other actual performances. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let your holy and pious intention be actual; that is . . . by a special prayer or action, . . . given to God. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. In action at the time being; now exiting; present; as the actual situation of the country. [ 1913 Webster ]

Actual cautery. See under Cautery. --
Actual sin (Theol.), that kind of sin which is done by ourselves in contradistinction to “original sin.” [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Real; genuine; positive; certain. See Real. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Finance) Something actually received; real, as distinct from estimated, receipts. [ Cant ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The accounts of revenues supplied . . . were not real receipts: not, in financial language, “actuals, ” but only Egyptian budget estimates. Fortnightly Review. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who deals with or considers actually existing facts and conditions, rather than fancies or theories; a realist; -- opposed to idealist. J. Grote. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Actualities The state of being actual; reality; as, the actuality of God's nature. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A making actual or really existent; giving the appearance of reality. [ R. ] Emerson.
Syn. -- realization, realisation. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. To make actual; to realize in action. [ R. ] Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. changed from potential to actual; as, saw his worst fears actualized.
Syn. -- realized [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. 1. Actively. [ Obs. ] “Neither actually . . . nor passively.” Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In act or in fact; really; in truth; positively. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quality of being actual; actuality. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to actuaries; as, the actuarial value of an annuity. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Actuaries [ L. actuarius copyist, clerk, fr. actus, p. p. of agere to do, act. ] 1. (Law) A registrar or clerk; -- used originally in courts of civil law jurisdiction, but in Europe used for a clerk or registrar generally. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The computing official of an insurance company; one whose profession it is to calculate for insurance companies the risks and premiums for life, fire, and other insurances. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Actuated p. pr. & vb. n. Actuating ] [ LL. actuatus, p. p. of actuare, fr. L. actus act. ] 1. To put into action or motion; to move or incite to action; to influence actively; to move as motives do; -- more commonly used of persons. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wings, which others were contriving to actuate by the perpetual motion. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Men of the greatest abilities are most fired with ambition; and, on the contrary, mean and narrow minds are the least actuated by it. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To carry out in practice; to perform. [ Obs. ] “To actuate what you command.” Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To move; impel; incite; rouse; instigate; animate. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. actuatus, p. p. of actuare. ] Put in action; actuated. [ Obs. ] South. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. moved to action motivated (vs. unmotivated) [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. prenom. 1. causing motion or action or change
Syn. -- activating(prenominal) [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. LL. actuatio. ] A bringing into action; movement. Bp. Pearson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who actuates, or puts into action. [ R. ] Melville. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. acus needle. ] To sharpen; to make pungent; to quicken. [ Obs. ] “[ To ] acuate the blood.” Harvey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Sharpened; sharp-pointed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Act of sharpening. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Adequate. ] The state or quality of being adequate, proportionate, or sufficient; a sufficiency for a particular purpose; as, the adequacy of supply to the expenditure. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. adaequatus, p. p. of adaequare to make equal to; ad + aequare to make equal, aequus equal. See Equal. ] Equal to some requirement; proportionate, or correspondent; fully sufficient; as, powers adequate to a great work; an adequate definition. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ireland had no adequate champion. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Proportionate; commensurate; sufficient; suitable; competent; capable. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ See Adequate, a. ] 1. To equalize; to make adequate. [ R. ] Fotherby. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To equal. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

It [ is ] an impossibility for any creature to adequate God in his eternity. Shelford. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an adequate manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being adequate; suitableness; sufficiency; adequacy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. adaequatio. ] The act of equalizing; act or result of making adequate; an equivalent. [ Obs. ] Bp. Barlow. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Relating to the season of advent. Sanderson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. & a. See Estuary. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. ad + fatuus foolish. ] To infatuate. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) The seaman or seamen stationed on the poop or after part of the ship, to attend the after-sails. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Native name. ] (Zool.) The crab-eating raccoon (Procyon cancrivorus), found in the tropical parts of America. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Sp., contr. of agua ardiente burning water (L. aqua water + ardens burning). ] 1. A inferior brandy of Spain and Portugal. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A strong alcoholic drink, especially pulque. [ Mexico and Spanish America. ] [ 1913 Webster ]