Definition of execution

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Execution (n.) A putting to death as a legal penalty; death lawfully inflicted; as, the execution of a murderer..

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Workmanship :: Workmanship (n.) The art or skill of a workman; the execution or manner of making anything.
Dolcemente :: Dolcemente (adv.) Softly; sweetly; with soft, smooth, and delicate execution..
Dry :: Dry (superl.) Exhibiting a sharp, frigid preciseness of execution, or the want of a delicate contour in form, and of easy transition in coloring..
Tormenter :: Tormenter (n.) An executioner.
Undue :: Undue (a.) Not agreeable to a rule or standard, or to duty; disproportioned; excessive; immoderate; inordinate; as, an undue attachment to forms; an undue rigor in the execution of law..
Return :: Return (n.) The rendering back or delivery of writ, precept, or execution, to the proper officer or court..
Levy :: Levy (v. t.) To take or seize on execution; to collect by execution.
Respite :: Respite (n.) To keep back from execution; to reprieve.
Intervene :: Intervene (v. i.) To occur, fall, or come between, points of time, or events; as, an instant intervened between the flash and the report; nothing intervened ( i. e., between the intention and the execution) to prevent the undertaking..
Administer :: Administer (v. t.) To manage or conduct, as public affairs; to direct or superintend the execution, application, or conduct of; as, to administer the government or the state..
Stiptic :: Stippling (n.) A mode of execution in which a flat or even tint is produced by many small touches.
Auto-da-fe :: Auto-da-fe (n.) An execution of such sentence, by the civil power, esp. the burning of a heretic. It was usually held on Sunday, and was made a great public solemnity by impressive forms and ceremonies..
Espadon :: Espadon (n.) A long, heavy, two-handed and two-edged sword, formerly used by Spanish foot soldiers and by executioners..
Return :: Return (n.) The certificate of an officer stating what he has done in execution of a writ, precept, etc., indorsed on the document..
Bodily :: Bodily (a.) Real; actual; put in execution.
Light :: Light (superl.) Not pressing heavily or hard upon; hence, having an easy, graceful manner; delicate; as, a light touch; a light style of execution..
Reprieve :: Reprieve (n.) A temporary suspension of the execution of a sentence, especially of a sentence of death..
Drill :: Drill (n.) The act or exercise of training soldiers in the military art, as in the manual of arms, in the execution of evolutions, and the like; hence, diligent and strict instruction and exercise in the rudiments and methods of any business; a kind or method of military exercises; as, infantry drill; battalion drill; artillery drill..
Defer :: Defer (v. t.) To put off; to postpone to a future time; to delay the execution of; to delay; to withhold.
Interruption :: Interruption (n.) Obstruction caused by breaking in upon course, current, progress, or motion; stop; hindrance; as, the author has met with many interruptions in the execution of his work; the speaker or the argument proceeds without interruption..
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