Many are perfect in men's humors that are not greatly capable of
the real part of business.
Bacon.
4. (Alg.) Having an assignable arithmetical or numerical value or
meaning; not imaginary.
5. (Law) Pertaining to things fixed, permanent, or immovable, as to
lands and tenements; as, real property, in distinction from personal or
movable property.
Chattels real (Law), such chattels as are annexed to, or savor of, the
realty, as terms for years of land. See Chattel. -- Real action (Law),
an action for the recovery of real property. -- Real assets (Law),
lands or real estate in the hands of the heir, chargeable with the
debts of the ancestor. -- Real composition (Eccl. Law), an agreement
made between the owner of lands and the parson or vicar, with consent
of the ordinary, that such lands shall be discharged from payment of
tithes, in consequence of other land or recompense given to the parson
in lieu and satisfaction thereof. Blackstone. -- Real estate or
property, lands, tenements, and hereditaments; freehold interests in
landed property; property in houses and land. Kent. Burrill. -- Real
presence (R. C. Ch.), the actual presence of the body and blood of
Christ in the eucharist, or the conversion of the substance of the
bread and wine into the real body and blood of Christ;
transubstantiation. In other churches there is a belief in a form of
real presence, not however in the sense of transubstantiation. -- Real
servitude, called also Predial servitude (Civil Law), a burden imposed
upon one estate in favor of another estate of another proprietor.
Erskine. Bouvier.
Syn. -- Actual; true; genuine; authentic. -- Real, Actual. Real
represents a thing to be a substantive existence; as, a real, not
imaginary, occurrence. Actual refers to it as acted or performed; and,
hence, when we wish to prove a thing real, we often say, "It actually
exists," "It has actually been done." Thus its reality is shown by its
actuality. Actual, from this reference to being acted, has recently
received a new signification, namely, present; as, the actual posture
of affairs; since what is now in action, or going on, has, of course, a
present existence. An actual fact; a real sentiment.
For he that but conceives a crime in thought, Contracts the danger
of an actual fault.
Dryden.
Our simple ideas are all real; all agree to the reality of things.
Locke.
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Re"al (r"al), n. A realist. [Obs.] Burton.
Re*al"gar (r*l"gr), n. [F. réalgar, Sp. rejalgar, Ar. rahj al ghr
powder of the mine.] (Min.) Arsenic sulphide, a mineral of a brilliant
red color; red orpiment. It is also an artificial product.
Re"al*ism (r"al*z'm), n. [Cf. F. réalisme.] 1. (Philos.) (a) As opposed
to nominalism, the doctrine that genera and species are real things or
entities, existing independently of our conceptions. According to
realism the Universal exists ante rem (Plato), or in re (Aristotle).
(b) As opposed to idealism, the doctrine that in sense perception there
is an immediate cognition of the external object, and our knowledge of
it is not mediate and representative.
2. (Art & Lit.) Fidelity to nature or to real life; representation
without idealization, and making no appeal to the imagination;
adherence to the actual fact.
Re"al*ist, n. [Cf. F. réaliste.] 1. (Philos.) One who believes in
realism; esp., one who maintains that generals, or the terms used to
denote the genera and species of things, represent real existences, and
are not mere names, as maintained by the nominalists.
2. (Art. & Lit.) An artist or writer who aims at realism in his work.
See Realism, 2.
Re`al*is"tic (-s"tk), a. Of or pertaining to the realists; in the
manner of the realists; characterized by realism rather than by
imagination.
Re`al*is"tic*al*ly, adv. In a realistic manner.
Re*al"i*ty (r*l"*t), n.; pl. Realities (- tz). [Cf. F. réalité, LL.
realitas. See 3d Real, and cf. 2d Realty.] 1. The state or quality of
being real; actual being or existence of anything, in distinction from
mere appearance; fact.
A man fancies that he understands a critic, when in reality he does
not comprehend his meaning.
Addison.
2. That which is real; an actual existence; that which is not
imagination, fiction, or pretense; that which has objective existence,
and is not merely an idea.
And to realities yield all her shows.
Milton.
My neck may be an idea to you, but it is a reality to me.
Beattie.