Definition of execution

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Execution (n.) The act of sacking a town.

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Extent :: Extent (n.) A process of execution by which the lands and goods of a debtor are valued and delivered to the creditor.
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..
Deathwatch :: Deathwatch (n.) The guard set over a criminal before his execution.
Stiptic :: Stippling (n.) A mode of execution in which a flat or even tint is produced by many small touches.
Hatching :: Hatching (n.) A mode of execution in engraving, drawing, and miniature painting, in which shading is produced by lines crossing each other at angles more or less acute; -- called also crosshatching..
Execution :: Execution (n.) A judicial writ by which an officer is empowered to carry a judgment into effect; final process.
Executioner :: Executioner (n.) One who executes; an executer.
Move :: Move (n.) An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
Rigorous :: Rigorous (a.) Manifesting, exercising, or favoring rigor; allowing no abatement or mitigation; scrupulously accurate; exact; strict; severe; relentless; as, a rigorous officer of justice; a rigorous execution of law; a rigorous definition or demonstration..
Hand :: Hand (n.) Power of performance; means of execution; ability; skill; dexterity.
Stippling :: Stippling (n.) A mode of execution which produces the effect by dots or small points instead of lines.
Levari Facias :: Levari facias () A writ of execution at common law.
Commission :: Commission (n.) A company of persons joined in the performance of some duty or the execution of some trust; as, the interstate commerce commission..
Respite :: Respite (n.) Temporary suspension of the execution of a capital offender; reprieve.
Donee :: Donee (n.) Anciently, one to whom lands were given; in later use, one to whom lands and tenements are given in tail; in modern use, one on whom a power is conferred for execution; -- sometimes called the appointor..
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..
Administration :: Administration (n.) The executive part of government; the persons collectively who are intrusted with the execution of laws and the superintendence of public affairs; the chief magistrate and his cabinet or council; or the council, or ministry, alone, as in Great Britain..
Execution :: Execution (n.) The carrying into effect the judgment given in a court of law.
Levy :: Levy (n.) The taking or seizure of property on executions to satisfy judgments, or on warrants for the collection of taxes; a collecting by execution..
Return :: Return (n.) The rendering back or delivery of writ, precept, or execution, to the proper officer or court..
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