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Antedate :: Antedate (v. t.) To date before the true time; to assign to an earlier date; thus, to antedate a deed or a bond is to give it a date anterior to the true time of its execution..

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

Stave :: Stave (n.) To delay by force or craft; to drive away; -- usually with off; as, to stave off the execution of a project..

Execution :: Execution (n.) The act of executing; a carrying into effect or to completion; performance; achievement; consummation; as, the execution of a plan, a work, etc..

Tormenter :: Tormenter (n.) An executioner.

Malexecution :: Malexecution (n.) Bad execution.

Etude :: Etude (n.) A study; an exercise; a piece for practice of some special point of technical execution.

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..

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..

Effect :: Effect (n.) Execution; performance; realization; operation; as, the law goes into effect in May..

Respite :: Respite (n.) Temporary suspension of the execution of a capital offender; reprieve.

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..

Inexecution :: Inexecution (n.) Neglect of execution; nonperformance; as, the inexecution of a treaty..

Sheriff :: Sheriff (n.) The chief officer of a shire or county, to whom is intrusted the execution of the laws, the serving of judicial writs and processes, and the preservation of the peace..

Return :: Return (n.) The certificate of an officer stating what he has done in execution of a writ, precept, etc., indorsed on the document..

Workmanship :: Workmanship (n.) The art or skill of a workman; the execution or manner of making anything.

Executive :: Executive (a.) Designed or fitted for execution, or carrying into effect; as, executive talent; qualifying for, concerned with, or pertaining to, the execution of the laws or the conduct of affairs; as, executive power or authority; executive duties, officer, department, etc..

Suspend :: Suspend (n.) To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any privilege, from the execution of an office, from the enjoyment of income, etc.; as, to suspend a student from college; to suspend a member of a club..

Reprieve :: Reprieve (v. t.) To delay the punishment of; to suspend the execution of sentence on; to give a respite to; to respite; as, to reprieve a criminal for thirty days..

Patibulary :: Patibulary (a.) Of or pertaining to the gallows, or to execution..

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