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Execution
EXECU'TION, n. Performance; the act of completing or accomplishing.
The excellence of the subject contributed much to the happiness of the execution.
1. In law, the carrying into effect a sentence or judgment of court; the last act of the law in completing the process by which justice is to be done, by which the possession of land or debt, damages or cost, is obtained, or by which judicial punishment is inflicted.
2. The instrument, warrant or official order, by which an officer is empowered to carry a judgment into effect. An execution issues from the clerk of a court, and is levied by a sheriff, his deputy or a constable, on the estate, goods or body of the debtor.
3. The act of signing and sealing a legal instrument, or giving it the forms required to render it a valid act; as the execution of a deed.
4. The last act of the law in the punishment of criminals; capital punishment; death inflicted according to the forms of law.
5. Effect; something done or accomplished.
Every shot did execution.
6. Destruction; slaughter.
It is used after do, to do execution; never after make.
7. Performance, as in music or other art.
execution appears in definitions for these words:
Act Administer Administration Adroit Afoot After-cost Alias Antedate Arduousness Behead Bell Blank Blunderbuss Bold Bumbailiff Capias Centesimation Charge Compliance Confession Constable Consternation Costume Countermand County Date Dated Deaths-man Deed Defect Defer Deforcement Demand Difficulty Discharge Discipline Dispatch Dispatchful Elegit Encourager Enforce Enforcement Enforcing Execution Executive Expedite Extend Extent Failure Faithful Feasibility Foot Forecast Fulcrum Fulfillment Gallowtree Guaranty Hand Hangman Headsman Hurdle Inexecution Inspector Instrument Insurgent Insurrection Interruption Justiciary Life Mesne Non-execution Nugatory Opposer Order Patibulary Performance Persevering Plodding Police-officer Probate Process Prosecuted Provost Ready Receipt Reprieve Reprieving Reprimand Resolution Respit Respited Respiting Return Rigid Rigorous Ripen Ripeness Satisfaction Satisfy Scaffold Scene Scioptics See Serve Service Sherif Sir Skill Smite Statute-merchant Statute-staple Stave Stop Sumptuary Sunder Suspend Suspension Train Unaccomplishment Undue Unsatisfied Unskillfulness Upon Vial Will Wisdom Witness Workmanship
Act Administer Administration Adroit Afoot After-cost Alias Antedate Arduousness Behead Bell Blank Blunderbuss Bold Bumbailiff Capias Centesimation Charge Compliance Confession Constable Consternation Costume Countermand County Date Dated Deaths-man Deed Defect Defer Deforcement Demand Difficulty Discharge Discipline Dispatch Dispatchful Elegit Encourager Enforce Enforcement Enforcing Execution Executive Expedite Extend Extent Failure Faithful Feasibility Foot Forecast Fulcrum Fulfillment Gallowtree Guaranty Hand Hangman Headsman Hurdle Inexecution Inspector Instrument Insurgent Insurrection Interruption Justiciary Life Mesne Non-execution Nugatory Opposer Order Patibulary Performance Persevering Plodding Police-officer Probate Process Prosecuted Provost Ready Receipt Reprieve Reprieving Reprimand Resolution Respit Respited Respiting Return Rigid Rigorous Ripen Ripeness Satisfaction Satisfy Scaffold Scene Scioptics See Serve Service Sherif Sir Skill Smite Statute-merchant Statute-staple Stave Stop Sumptuary Sunder Suspend Suspension Train Unaccomplishment Undue Unsatisfied Unskillfulness Upon Vial Will Wisdom Witness Workmanship
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