actuose
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin actuōsus (“active”).
Adjective
[edit]actuose (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
[edit]Latin
[edit]Adverb
[edit]āctuōsē (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.