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actorial

actorial adjective: relating to an actor, or one who performs an action.

Adjective

actorial (not comparable)

  1. Relating to an actor, or one who performs an action.
    • It constituted, I came to think, the first step in his actorial investigation; the one which provided an intense and minute sensory and motor corporeal image, which he could then scan internally and analyse, and then finally imbue with himself, deepen, subjectivise.1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings

Origin of actorial

From actor + -ial.

Questions about actorial

What does actorial mean?
Actorial means relating to an actor, or one who performs an action.
What part of speech is actorial?
Actorial is an adjective.

Words near actorial in the dictionary

  1. actor-proof
  2. actoress
  3. actoresses
  4. actorfic
  5. actorfics
  6. actorial
  7. actorine
  8. actorines
  9. actorish
  10. actorishly
  11. actorishness

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