En-tĕl'e-chy, n.

n. [Gr. ἐντελέχεια, an actuality, probably from ἐν τέλει ἔχειν, to be complete, from ἐν, in, τέλος, completion, end, and ἔχειν, to have or hold.] (Peripatetic Philos.) An actuality; an object completely actualized, in distinction from mere potential existence.