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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Actually \Ac"tu*al*ly\, adv.
     1. Actively. [Obs.] "Neither actually . . . nor passively."
        --Fuller.
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     2. In act or in fact; really; in truth; positively.


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  actually
       adv 1: in actual fact; "to be nominally but not actually
              independent"; "no one actually saw the shark"; "large
              meteorites actually come from the asteroid belt" [syn:
               {really}]
       2: used to imply that one would expect the fact to be the
          opposite of that stated; surprisingly; "you may actually
          be doing the right thing by walking out"; "she actually
          spoke Latin"; "they thought they made the rules but in
          reality they were only puppets"; "people who seem
          stand-offish are in reality often simply nervous" [syn: {in
          reality}]
       3: as a sentence modifier to add slight emphasis; "actually, we
          all help clear up after a meal"; "actually, I haven't seen
          the film"; "I'm not all that surprised actually"; "she
          hasn't proved to be too satisfactory, actually"
       4: at the present moment; "the transmission screen shows the
          picture that is actually on the air"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  47 Moby Thesaurus words for "actually":
     absolutely, assuredly, certainly, clearly, de facto, decidedly,
     demonstrably, factually, for a certainty, for real, forsooth,
     genuinely, historically, in actuality, in all conscience,
     in effect, in fact, in reality, in truth, in very sooth, indeed,
     indeedy, indubitably, literally, manifestly, nothing else but,
     noticeably, observably, obviously, of a truth, patently,
     positively, quite, really, really-truly, sensibly, seriously,
     truly, unambiguously, undeniably, undoubtedly, unmistakably,
     verily, veritably, visibly, with truth, without doubt
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  ACTUALLY, adv.  Perhaps; possibly.
  
  

















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