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Execution   /ˌɛksəkjˈuʃən/   Listen
noun
Execution  n.  
1.
The act of executing; a carrying into effect or to completion; performance; achievement; consummation; as, the execution of a plan, a work, etc. "The excellence of the subject contributed much to the happiness of the execution."
2.
A putting to death as a legal penalty; death lawfully inflicted; as, the execution of a murderer; to grant a stay of execution. "A warrant for his execution."
3.
The act of the mode of performing a work of art, of performing on an instrument, of engraving, etc.; as, the execution of a statue, painting, or piece of music. "The first quality of execution is truth."
4.
The mode of performing any activity; as, the game plan was excellent, but its execution was filled with mistakes.
5.
(Law)
(a)
The carrying into effect the judgment given in a court of law.
(b)
A judicial writ by which an officer is empowered to carry a judgment into effect; final process.
(c)
The act of signing, and delivering a legal instrument, or giving it the forms required to render it valid; as, the execution of a deed, or a will.
6.
That which is executed or accomplished; effect; effective work; usually with do. "To do some fatal execution."
7.
The act of sacking a town. (Obs.)





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"Execution" Quotes from Famous Books



... testimony as to Mr. Burroughs' giant strength was alone sufficient rightfully to convict him. It is not improbable that the real animus of the feeling against Master Burroughs was the belief that he was not sound in the faith; for Master Cotton Mather, after his execution, declared to the people that he was "no ordained minister," and called their attention to the fact that Satan often appeared as ...
— Dulcibel - A Tale of Old Salem • Henry Peterson
... through the branches of his retreat; and there, to his delight, he caught a brief view of the boat. Again the report of another gun pealed out, and a wild screaming cry from the natives told him that the shot had done some execution. ...
— Ridan The Devil And Other Stories - 1899 • Louis Becke
... doings of the obnoxious sect in England had been fully discussed in the Colony, and the law passed as a means of protection against the heresies of Anne Hutchinson and her school, and which had simply waited new opportunity for its execution, came into exercise sooner ...
— Anne Bradstreet and Her Time • Helen Campbell
... for the execution brought quick fruit. Runners were sent out with messages, by the two prisoners, appealing to their people to save the lives of their chiefs, and the result was that the whole tribe came in to the post within the specified time. The two manacled ...
— The Memoirs of General Philip H. Sheridan, Vol. II., Part 6 • P. H. Sheridan
... papers above mentioned you will have seen the nature and extent of that gentleman's commission. I have now the honor to present him to your notice, persuaded that you will with pleasure procure him occasions of putting effectually into execution the views of the court and commerce of his country. Their nomination of him to this important trust, until circumstances may demand that he be immediately authorised by his Sovereign, will, I make no doubt, ...
— The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. IX • Various


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