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complete effect; to complete; to finish; to effect; to perform; Why delays His hand to execute what his decree Fixed on this day Milton.

One who performs or carries into effect. See Executor.

The act of executing; a carrying into effect or to completion; performance; achievement; consummation; as, the execution of a plan, a work, etc. The excellence of the subject contributed much to the happiness of the execution. Dryden.

One who executes; an executer. Bacon.

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.

In the way of executing or performing.

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

Of or pertaining to an executive.

The office of an executor.

Pertaining to administration, or putting the laws in force; executive. The official and executory duties of government. Burke.

An executrix.

A woman exercising the functions of an executor.

Without, or apparently without, a scutellum; -- said of certain insects.

To cut completely; to cut off. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A machine in which hay is chopped short, as fodder for cattle.

The state or quality of not being consecutive. J. H. Newman.

To strike or stamp in. [Obs.] Becon.

A small escutcheon borne within a shield.

Incapable of being executed or performed; impracticable; infeasible.

Neglect of execution; nonperformance; as, the inexecution of a treaty. Spence.