EXECUTOR

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

One who executes or performs; a doer; as, an executor of baseness. Shak.

2.
n.

An executioner. [Obs.] Delivering o'er to executors pa . . . The lazy, yawning drone. Shak.

3.
n.

The person appointed by a Executor de son tort Etym: [Of., executor of his own wrong] (Law), a stranger who intermeddles without authority in the distribution of the estate of a deceased person.