See Also: Aetolia(encyclopedia)

actuary (iou) and Aetolia (sh)


actuary (iou)



actuary noun. M16.
[Latin actuarius, from actus ACT noun: see -ARY1.]
A registrar, a clerk; an officer who records the acts of a court. obsolete exc. in the Convocation of the Province of Canterbury (Ch. of England). M16.
An officer who manages the deposits in a savings bank. E19.
A person who compiles statistics of mortality, accidents, etc., and calculates insurance risks and premiums. M19.

Aetolia (sh)




District north of the Gulf of Corinth, ancient Greece.

Aetolia figures prominently in early legend. By 367 BC it had been organized by various tribes into a federal state comprising the Aetolian League. Coming under Roman rule, it was incorporated into the province of Achaea (see Achaean League) in 27 BC by Augustus. Governed later by Albania and Venice, it came under Turkish rule in AD 1450. It was the scene of fierce fighting in the War of Greek Independence (1821-29). Modern Aetolia is linked with Acarnania as a department of Greece.