Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Involving or comprising action; active. 2. (a.) Existing in act or reality; really acted or acting; in fact; real; -- opposed to potential, possible, virtual, speculative, conceivable, theoretical, or nominal; as, the actual cost of goods; the actual case under discussion. 3. (a.) In action at the time being; now exiting; present; as the actual situation of the country. 4. (n.) Something actually received; real, as distinct from estimated, receipts.

Multi-Version Concordance Actual (2 Occurrences) Exodus 6:3 and I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, as God Almighty; but by my name Jehovah I was not known to them. (See JPS) Deuteronomy 21:16 then it shall be, in the day that he causes his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may not make the son of the beloved the firstborn before the son of the hated, who is the firstborn: (See NIV)