[f. ACTUATE v. + -ING1.] † a. Reducing to action, carrying out in actual practice. b. Moving to action, impelling, animating. (Now mostly gerundial.)
1645. Bp. Hall, Content., 132. Certain firm resolutions for the full actuating our contentment.
c. 1680. P. Sterry, Wks., II. 226. The actuating of this in the real Performance, the making of it actual on us, in our own Persons, is then when we are New-born.
