actualize

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

From actual + -ize.

If he now exist, then actualized in his thought already must be that ethical philosophy which we seek as the pattern which our own must evermore approach. — The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, William James
The potential consciousness that accompanies them is generally actualized only at the outset of the act, and leaves the rest of the process to go on by itself. — Creative Evolution, Bergson, Henri
There is a philosophic (and inasmuch as it is actualized by an effort of freedom, an artificial) consciousness, which lies beneath or (as it were) behind the spontaneous consciousness natural to all reflecting beings. — Biographia Literaria, Samuel Taylor Coleridge

realize, realise, actualise, substantiate

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