The corpus record — Latin

actuosus

actuosus · adj

full of activity

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Where it lives

De Tranquillitate Animi 1 · 1.32/10k
Orator 1 · 0.54/10k
De Ira 1 · 0.45/10k
de Natura Deorum 1 · 0.28/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 2 · 0.25/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

actŭōsus — Lewis & Short

actŭōsus, a, um, adj.actus,

I full of activity, very active (with the access. idea of zeal, subjective impulse; diff. from industrius, which refers more to the means by which an object is attained, Doed. Syn. 1, 123): virtus actuosa (est), et deus vester nihil agens expers virtutis (est), Cic. N. D. 1, 40; so id. Or. 36, 125; Sen. Ep. 39.—Hence, acc. to Fest. s. v. actus, p. 15, subst., an actor or dancer.—Adv.: actŭōse, in a lively manner, with activity, Cic. de Or. 3, 26, 102.

In the wild

actuosae Cicero, Orator 125.p2
actuosa Seneca, De Tranquillitate Animi 9.4.8
actuosus Seneca, De Ira 2.19.2
actuosam Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 2.1.10
actuosae Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 8.8.1
actuosa Cicero, de Natura Deorum 1.110.p2

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Where it came from

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