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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Execution" Quotes from Famous Books

... were under way for the impending execution. A T-rail from the railroad yard had been procured, and men were burying it in the square before the jail. Others were bringing chains, and a load of pine wood was piled in convenient proximity. ...

— The Marrow of Tradition • Charles W. Chesnutt

... filled with pity for the perseverance and the poverty of their old friend; and they caused to be admitted into the grand salon of the Exhibition, a picture by Fougeres. This picture, powerful in interest but derived from Vigneron as to sentiment and from Dubufe's first manner as to execution, represented a young man in prison, whose hair was being cut around the nape of the neck. On one side was a priest, on the other two women, one old, one young, in tears. A sheriff's clerk was reading aloud a document. On a wretched table ...

— Pierre Grassou • Honore de Balzac

... lived, and from the bloody scene of her husband's execution she repaired to Kiew. There would she live in the cloister of the Penitents, preserving the memory of the being she loved, and imploring the vengeance of Heaven ...

— The Daughter of an Empress • Louise Muhlbach

... Henry VIII abandoned him, the Emperor still kept the upper hand. He extorted the Peace of Madrid; the League of the Italian princes with France, by which its execution was to have been hindered, and to which England lent her moral support without actually joining it, led Charles V to new victories, to the conquest of Rome, and hence to a position in the world which now did really threaten the freedom of all other nations. The necessary ...

— A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) • Leopold von Ranke

... violently awakened by this reckless adventurer, charlatan, and what not, who had won the King's ear. The invertebrate flunkeys attached to every Court were jealous of his influence over the King, and did what they could to hinder the execution of his plans. But Wagner was not the man to be hindered, and if these backboneless crawling things made life at Munich so loathsome to him that he sought peace to complete his work at Triebschen, near Lucerne, nevertheless ...

— Wagner • John F. Runciman

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