actuose

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Learned borrowing from Latin actuōsus (active).

Adjective[edit]

actuose (comparative more actuose, superlative most actuose)

  1. (chiefly Late Modern, rare) Very active.
    • 2012, Wolfgang Giegerich, What Is Soul?:
      When I say that the soul is actuose, this is to emphasize once more that it is not to be thought of as a substance, an existing entity or being, but as ongoing enactment or performance.

Anagrams[edit]

Latin[edit]

Adverb[edit]

āctuōsē (not comparable)

  1. in a lively manner, with activity, lively, energetically

References[edit]

  • actuose”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • actuose”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • actuose in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette