Definition of execution

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Execution (n.) That which is executed or accomplished; effect; effective work; -- usually with do.

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Expedition :: Expedition (n.) A sending forth or setting forth the execution of some object of consequence; progress.
Insurrection :: Insurrection (n.) A rising against civil or political authority, or the established government; open and active opposition to the execution of law in a city or state..
Executor :: Executor (n.) An executioner.
Patibulary :: Patibulary (a.) Of or pertaining to the gallows, or to execution..
Elegit :: Elegit (n.) A judicial writ of execution, by which a defendant's goods are appraised and delivered to the plaintiff, and, if not sufficient to satisfy the debt, all of his lands are delivered, to be held till the debt is paid by the rents and profits, or until the defendant's interest has expired..
Executioner :: Executioner (n.) One who puts to death in conformity to legal warrant, as a hangman..
Levy :: Levy (v. t.) To take or seize on execution; to collect by execution.
Defer :: Defer (v. t.) To put off; to postpone to a future time; to delay the execution of; to delay; to withhold.
Carnifex :: Carnifex (n.) The public executioner at Rome, who executed persons of the lowest rank; hence, an executioner or hangman..
Performance :: Performance (n.) The act of performing; the carrying into execution or action; execution; achievement; accomplishment; representation by action; as, the performance of an undertaking of a duty..
Arduousness :: Arduousness (n.) The quality of being arduous; difficulty of execution.
Hurdle :: Hurdle (n.) In England, a sled or crate on which criminals were formerly drawn to the place of execution..
Stave :: Stave (n.) To delay by force or craft; to drive away; -- usually with off; as, to stave off the execution of a project..
Etude :: Etude (n.) A study; an exercise; a piece for practice of some special point of technical execution.
Tout-ensemble :: Tout-ensemble (n.) All together; hence, in costume, the fine arts, etc., the general effect of a work as a whole, without regard to the execution of the separate perts..
Stippling :: Stippling (n.) A mode of execution which produces the effect by dots or small points instead of lines.
Staff :: Staff (n.) An establishment of officers in various departments attached to an army, to a section of an army, or to the commander of an army. The general's staff consists of those officers about his person who are employed in carrying his commands into execution. See Etat Major..
Facilitate :: Facilitate (v. t.) To make easy or less difficult; to free from difficulty or impediment; to lessen the labor of; as, to facilitate the execution of a task..
Blunderbuss :: Blunderbuss (n.) A short gun or firearm, with a large bore, capable of holding a number of balls, and intended to do execution without exact aim..
Return :: Return (n.) The rendering back or delivery of writ, precept, or execution, to the proper officer or court..
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