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Definition of Execution

1. Noun. Putting a condemned person to death.

2. Noun. The act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it. "Experience generally improves performance"

3. Noun. (computer science) the process of carrying out an instruction by a computer.

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.

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.

6. Noun. The act of accomplishing some aim or executing some order. "The agency was created for the implementation of the policy"

7. Noun. Unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being.

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. Noun. The act, manner or style of executing (actions, maneuvers, performances). ¹

2. Noun. The state of being executed (accomplished). ¹

3. Noun. The act of putting to death or being put to death as a penalty, or actions so associated. ¹

4. Noun. (legal) The carrying into effect of a court judgment, or of a will. ¹

5. Noun. (legal) The formal process by which a contract is made valid and put into binding effect. ¹

6. Noun. (computing) The carrying out of an instruction, program or program segment by a computer. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Execution

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Execution

executability executable executable code executables executant executants execute execute order execute orders executed

executer executers executes executeth executing execution (current term) execution of instrument execution sale execution speed execution style

executional peak executioner executioneress executioners executions executive executive agency executive branch executive clemency executive committee

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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