actuose
English
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Latin actuōsus (“active”).
Adjective
editactuose (comparative more actuose, superlative most actuose)
- (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
editLatin
editAdverb
editāctuōsē (not comparable)
- 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.