Definition of Execution
1. Noun. Putting a condemned person to death.
Generic synonyms: Corporal Punishment
Specialized synonyms: Burning, Burning At The Stake, Hanging, Burning, Electrocution, Beheading, Decapitation, Crucifixion
Derivative terms: Execute, Execute, Executioner
2. Noun. The act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it. "Experience generally improves performance"
Generic synonyms: Action
Specialized synonyms: Specific Performance, Linguistic Performance, Mechanics, Mechanism, Officiation
Derivative terms: Execute, Perform
3. Noun. (computer science) the process of carrying out an instruction by a computer.
Generic synonyms: Physical Process, Process
Category relationships: Computer Science, Computing
Specialized synonyms: Batch Processing, Concurrent Execution, Multiprogramming
Group relationships: Data Processing
4. Noun. (law) the completion of a legal instrument (such as a contract or deed) by signing it (and perhaps sealing and delivering it) so that it becomes legally binding and enforceable.
Generic synonyms: Subscription
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law
Derivative terms: Execute
5. Noun. A routine court order that attempts to enforce the judgment that has been granted to a plaintiff by authorizing a sheriff to carry it out.
Generic synonyms: Court Order
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law
6. Noun. The act of accomplishing some aim or executing some order. "The agency was created for the implementation of the policy"
Generic synonyms: Enforcement
Derivative terms: Execute, Implement
7. Noun. Unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being.
Generic synonyms: Homicide
Specialized synonyms: Assassination, Bloodshed, Gore, Contract Killing, Parricide, Mariticide, Fratricide, Uxoricide, Filicide, Elimination, Liquidation, Butchery, Carnage, Mass Murder, Massacre, Slaughter, Lynching, Regicide, Dry-gulching, Hit, Infanticide, Shoot-down, Tyrannicide, Thuggee
Derivative terms: Execute, Murder, Murderous, Slay
Definition of Execution
1. n. The act of executing; a carrying into effect or to completion; performance; achievement; consummation; as, the execution of a plan, a work, etc.
Definition of Execution
1. [n -S]
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Execution
Literary usage of Execution
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A General Abridgment of Law and Equity: Alphabetically Digested Under Proper by Charles Viner (1792)
"In what Cafes there ought to be a Scire Facias, And where execution may be by
Fieri Facias, Capias, or Elegit, without Scire Facias. ..."
2. The Puritans: Or, The Church, Court, and Parliament of England, During the by Samuel Hopkins (1861)
"AN CONVICTS LED OUT OF PRISON FOR execution. — REPRIEVED. — BOOKS PUBLISHED BY
BARROW AND GREENWOOD ... THE SECRET HISTORY OF THEIR REPRIEVES AND execution. ..."
3. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"But the methods of execution were unseemly, as delineated in Hogarth's print of
the execution of the idle apprentice, and were ineffectual in reducing the ..."
4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1844)
"A witness to a deed must state the circumstances of the execution : the sealing
and delivery. In this case an objection, that he had stated merely, ..."
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