1701 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World I. v. 256 It would be a most strange and ill consisting Thought, that which is the very Ground and Measure of the Possibilities of things should have no concern in the Actualizing of them.

1832 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 730 Ireland demanded the actualizing of religious charity.

1877 E. Thomas tr. F. A. Lange Hist. Materialism I. ii. ii. 198 After Aristotle..had so unhappily explained becoming and motion generally, as results of purely potential matter, and the actualising of form.

1979 H. Hood Reservoir Ravine xi. 194 Life is teeming, bursting into birth, the actualizing of compossibles.

2002 Shakespeare Q. 53 487 Taymor located the principal trauma of 9/11 precisely in its horrific actualizing of apocalyptic imagery from film.

1825 S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. 55 Marriage contracted between Christians is a true and perfect Symbol or Mystery; that is, the actualizing Faith being supposed to exist in the Receivers, it is an outward Sign co-essential with that which it signifies, or a living Part of that, the whole of which it represents.

1861 N. Amer. Rev. July 154 Carlyle brings to it the force of a mind singularly learned, eloquent, actualizing, and dramatic.

1907 Philos. Rev. 16 324 As object, the actualizing person becomes developed qualitatively in ‘organization’, temporally in history, spatially in outer form.

1964 E. Palmer tr. A. Martinet Elements Gen. Linguistics 119 It would be tempting to speak in such a case of an actualizing moneme with an intonational significans.

2002 R. G. Mitchell Dancing at Armageddon iv. 112 Wordcraft..may be an expressive, autotelic end in itself, an actualizing opportunity to play in a show-off game of creative conjuring and dramatic performance.