v. [f. ACTUAL a. + -IZE.]
1. To make actual, to convert into an actual fact, to realize in action.
1810. Coleridge, Friend, I. xv. (1866), 65. To make our feelings, with their vital warmth, actualize our reason.
1823. De Quincey, Wks., 1860, XIV. 56. When these inert and sleeping forms are organized, when these possibilities are actualized.
1850. E. P. Whipple, Ess. & Rev. (ed. 3), I. 300. If the phrase, realizing the ideal, were translated into the phrase, actualizing the real, much ambiguity might be avoided.
2. To represent or describe realistically.
1881. Athenæum, 9 July, 39/3. Other writers … have not sufficient imaginative force to actualize a truly imaginative situation, and require the ‘prop of allegory.’
