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Not real; unsubstantial; fanciful; ideal.

The quality or state of being unreal; want of reality.

To make unreal; to idealize. His fancy . . . unrealizes everything at a touch. Lowell.

In an unreal manner; ideally.

Of or pertaining to urea; containing, or consisting of, urea; as, ureal deposits.

ove; relating to sexual intercourse. Into the snare I fell Of fair, fallacious looks, venereal trains, Softened with pleasure and voluptuous life. Milton.

The act of bringing down or humbling. "The abjection of the king and his realm." Joe.

The act of abjuring or forswearing; a renunciation upon oath; as, abjuration of the realm, a sworn banishment, an oath taken to leave the country and never to return.

e upon oath; to forswear; to disavow; as, to abjure allegiance to a prince. To abjure the realm, is to swear to abandon it forever.

Viewed apart from modifying influences or without comparison with other objects; actual; real; -- opposed to relative and comparative; as, absolute motion; absolute time or space.

solute; independence of everything extraneous; unlimitedness; absolute power; independent reality; positiveness.

One who believes that it is possible to realize a cognition or concept of the absolute. Sir. W. Hamilton.

A mode of acquiring property, by which the owner of a corporeal substance which receives an addition by growth, or by labor, has a right to the part or thing added, or the improvement (provided the thing is not changed into a different species). Thus, the owner of a cow becomes the owner of her calf.…

A state of reality or real existence as opposed to a possibility or possible existence. [Obs.] The seeds of plants are not at first in act, but in possibility, what they afterward grow to be. Hooker.

The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem, or other composition; the unfolding of the drama of events.

Existing in act or reality; really acted or acting; in fact; real; -- opposed to potential, possible, virtual, speculative, coceivable, theoretical, or nominal; as, the actual cost of goods; the actual case under discussion.

The state of being actual; reality; as, the actuality of God's nature. South.

A making actual or really existent. [R.] Emerson.

To make actual; to realize in action. [R.] Coleridge.

In act or in fact; really; in truth; positively.