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Performed; executed; finished.

To execute on a drum, as a tune.

To bring to pass; to execute; to enforce; to achieve; to accomplish. To effect that which the divine counsels had decreed. Bp. Hurd. They sailed away without effecting their purpose. Jowett (Th. ).

Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance; elaborate research. Drawn to the life in each elaborate page. Waller.

developed or executed with care and in minute detail; as, the carefully elaborated theme. Syn. -- detailed, elaborate. [WordNet 1.5]

To execute or put to death by electricity. -- E*lec`tro*cu"tion, n.

germination. In embryo, in an incipient or undeveloped state; in conception, but not yet executed. "The company little suspected what a noble work I had then in embryo." Swift.

To put in force; to cause to take effect; to give effect to; to execute with vigor; as, to enforce the laws.

eer, a person skilled in the science of civil engineering. -- Military engineer, one who executes engineering works of a military nature. See under Engineering.

fect a new arrangement or disposition; a maneuver. Those evolutions are best which can be executed with the greatest celerity, compatible with regularity. Campbell.

Capable of being executed; feasible; as, an executable project. [R.]

One who executes or performs; esp., a performer on a musical instrument. Great executants on the organ. De Quincey.

That which is executed or accomplished; effect; effective work; -- usually with do. To do some fatal execution. Shak.

One who executes; an executer. Bacon.

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

Designed to be executed or carried into effect in time to come, or to take effect on a future contingency; as, an executory devise, reminder, or estate; an executory contract. Blackstone.

Capable of being done, executed, or effected; practicable. Always existing before their eyes as a thing feasible in practice. Burke. It was not feasible to gratify so many ambitions. Beaconsfield.

To execute, as any delicate work.

To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude. Why do the emperor's trumpets flourish thus Shak.

To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce. [Obs.] What can the church force more J. Webster.