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actus

n. An Ancient Roman unit of length, approximately 35.5 metres.

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Actus can refer to the following:

  • In Ancient Rome:
    • An ancient Roman unit of length
    • Actus, path which could only have a horse cart.
  • Actus purus, a term employed in scholastic philosophy to express the absolute perfection of God.
  • Actus tragicus, another name for the Bach cantata Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit, BWV 106
  • Actus Tragicus (comics), a group of five Israeli comics artists
  • A French acronym for Chadian Action for Unity and Socialism, a communist political party in Chad

Usage examples of "actus".

Wiedenfeld, De Exorcismi Origine, Mutatione, deque hujus Actus peragendi Ratione Neander, Church History, vol.

A little over a week later, they reached a much bigger canyon, a wide, rugged gorge through whose bottom ran a quiet river, where pine trees and actus coexisted along the sandy banks and birds twittered in hidden crevices among the rocks.

It is useless to be always looking back to be a laudator temporis acti se puero is placed by the wise and genial Horace to the discredit and not to the credit of old age.

The wall of earth between the pits was not wide enough to permit quick, mass acti on.