executantadj.n.
/ɛkˈsɛkjʊtənt/ A. adj.
That performs (music). rare.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > [adjective]
tuneful1591
executant1865
1865 Reader No. 123. 523/2 Any living executant musician.
B. n.
1. gen. One who executes, performs, or carries out. Const. of.
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the world > action or operation > carrying out > [noun] > one who
executor1388
fulfillerc1434
executer1532
executioner1598
executant1858
1858 J. Martineau Stud. Christianity 151 This world may be regarded..as the stage of divine agency, using the visible actors as the executants of an invisible thought.
1860 Times 11 Oct. 10/6 Mr. Philip being the executant of the whole of the work.
1868 R. Browning Ring & Bk. II. v. 158 Absolve, then, me, law's mere executant!
2. esp. A musical performer.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > [noun]
musiciana1398
musickerc1450
music man1569
tuner1579
harmonian1603
minstrel1718
musico1724
harmonist1742
performer1776
executanta1859
musicist1873
melodizer1890
tunester1903
muso1967
muso1977
a1859 De Quincy in H. A. Page Life (1877) II. xix. 174 All great executants on the organ.
1862 R. H. Patterson Ess. Hist. & Art 90 The soul, at once composer and executant.
1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch I. ii. xvi. 287 Rosamond, with the executant's instinct, had seized his manner of playing.
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