actualize

[ ak-choo-uh-lahyz ]

/ ˈæk tʃu əˌlaɪz /

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

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

Origin of actualize

First recorded in 1800–10; actual + -ize

It is a value, but not in the sense that man first appreciates it and subsequently looks for it and strives to actualise it.

The Reform of Education |Giovanni Gentile
By it more nobly than by any other action man is enabled to actualise his superior nature.

The Reform of Education |Giovanni Gentile
There is something unwholesome in acknowledging any ideal which we do not strive so far as we can to actualise.

The War and Unity |Various
He did actualise knowing where some things could be hanging.

Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein |Gertrude Stein

His potentialities began to actualise with his comprehension of El Greco and the Venetians.

Modern Painting, Its Tendency and Meaning |Willard Huntington Wright

actualize

/ (ˈæktʃʊəˌlaɪz) /

to make actual or real

to represent realistically

actualization or actualisation, noun