actualize

[ak-choo-uh-lahyz]

Origin

verb (used with object), -ized, -iz·ing.

to make actual or real; turn into action or fact.

Also, especially British, ac·tu·al·ise.

Origin:
1800–10; actual + -ize

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actualize or actualise (ˈæktʃʊəˌlaɪz)

—vb
1.	to make actual or real
2.	to represent realistically

actualise or actualise

—vb

actuali'zation or actualise

—n

actuali'sation or actualise

—n

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Word Origin & History

actualize

1810, first attested in Coleridge, from actual (q.v.) + -ize.

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"In the face of the modern crisis, both poets turn their eyes to the past and actualize history: every epoch is this epoch. But Eliot actually desires to return and reinstall Christ; Pound uses the past as another form of the future. Having lost the center of his world, he throws himself into every adventure. Unlike Eliot, he is a reactionary, not a conservative. In fact, Pound has never ceased to be a North American and he is the legitimate descendent of Whitman, this is, he is a son of utopia.... Pound's erudition is a banquet after an expedition of conquest; Eliot's, the search for a standard that will give meaning to history, stability to movement. Pound accumulates quotations with the heroic air of one who robs graves; Eliot orders them as if he were hauling in the relics of a shipwreck. Pound's work is a journey that perhaps leads us nowhere; Eliot's, a search for the ancestral home."

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