actuose

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin actuōsus (“active”).

Adjective

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

• acetous, coteaus

Latin

Adverb

āctuōsē (not comparable)

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

References

• “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.