Definition of Executing

1. Noun. Putting a condemned person to death.


Definition of Executing

1. Verb. (present participle of execute) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Executing

1. execute [v] - See also: execute

Lexicographical Neighbors of Executing

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executability
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execute order
execute orders
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executing (current term)
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executive clemency

Literary usage of Executing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1921)
"[2] One of the well recognized tests for determining whether a constitutional provision is self-executing is that the right or duty which It Imposes may be ..."

2. Commentaries on the Law of Agency as a Branch of Commercial and Maritime by Joseph Story, Edmund Hatch Bennett (1863)
"DUTIES AND OBLIGATIONS OF AGENTS IN executing AUTHORITY. ... What is the proper mode of executing the authority ; and what will be held a good execution ..."

3. The Law of Railways: Embracing Corporations, Eminent Domain, Contracts by Isaac Fletcher Redfield (1867)
"Calls paid by vendor after executing transfer. § 34. 1. It has been said, too, that the contractor to transfer stock must see to it that all calls are met, ..."

4. United States Supreme Court Reportsby Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1882)
"In such a case, not depending on the absolute Insanity of the grantor at the time of executing the conveyance, the court may determine the question of ..."

5. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including A Journal of a Tour to the by James Boswell, John Wilson Croker (1831)
"I am sorry now that I did not insist on our executing that scheme. Besides the other objects of curiosity and observation, to have seen my illustrious ..."

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