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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

EFFECT'UAL, a. Producing an effect, or the effect desired or intended; or having adequate power or force to produce the effect. The means employed were effectual.
According to the gift of the grace of God given me by the effectual working of his power. Ephesians 3.
1. Veracious; expressive of facts. [Not used.]
2. Effectual assassin, in Mitford, is unusual and not well authorized.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: producing or capable of producing an intended result or having a striking effect; "an air-cooled motor was more effective than a witch's broomstick for rapid long- distance transportation"-LewisMumford; "effective teaching methods"; "effective steps toward peace"; "made an effective entrance"; "his complaint proved to be effectual in bringing action"; "an efficacious law" [syn: effective, effectual, efficacious] [ant: ineffective, ineffectual, uneffective]
2: having legal efficacy or force; "a sound title to the property" [syn: legal, sound, effectual]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 14th century producing or able to produce a desired effect Synonyms: see effective • effectuality noun • effectualness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 capable of producing the required result or effect; answering its purpose. 2 valid. Derivatives: effectuality n. effectually adv. effectualness n. Etymology: ME f. med.L effectualis (as EFFECT)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Effectual Ef*fec"tu*al (?; 135), a. [See Effect, n.] Producing, or having adequate power or force to produce, an intended effect; adequate; efficient; operative; decisive. --Shak. Effectual steps for the suppression of the rebellion. --Macaulay. Effectual calling (Theol.), a doctrine concerning the work of the Holy Spirit in producing conviction of sin and acceptance of salvation by Christ, -- one of the five points of Calvinism. See Calvinism. Syn: Effectual, Efficacious, Effective. Usage: An efficacious remedy is had recourse to, and proves effective if it does decided good, effectual if it does all the good desired. --C. J. Smith.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If an action or plan is effectual, it succeeds in producing the results that were intended. (FORMAL) This is the only effectual way to secure our present and future happiness. = effective ? ineffectual ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Operative, successful. 2. Efficacious, effective, active, efficient, of adequate power.

Moby Thesaurus

able, achieving, active, actual, adequate, ascertained, attested, authenticated, authoritative, banausic, behind the scenes, binding, capable, categorically true, causal, causative, certain, certified, charismatic, charming, competent, conclusive, confirmed, consequential, constitutive, corroborated, decisive, demonstrated, determinative, determined, documentary, effective, efficacious, efficient, enchanting, equal to, established, estimable, etiological, factual, feasible, forceful, forcible, formative, fulfilling, functional, go, historical, important, in force, influential, institutive, lawful, legal, magnetic, momentous, not in error, objectively true, occasional, operable, operational, operative, originative, personable, persuasive, pivotal, potent, powerful, practicable, practical, pragmatic, prestigious, productive, proficient, proved, real, realizable, reputable, sound, strong, suasive, substantial, substantiated, sure-enough, telling, toothy, true, true as gospel, truthful, unconfuted, undenied, undoubted, unerroneous, unfallacious, unfalse, unmistaken, unquestionable, unrefuted, up to, useful, valid, validated, veracious, verified, veritable, weighty, winning, workable