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单词 executor
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executorn.

(in sense 1)Brit. /ˈɛksəkjuːtə/, U.S. /ˈɛksəˌkjudər/ (in sense 3)Brit. /ᵻɡˈzɛkjᵿtə/, /ɛɡˈzɛkjᵿtə/, /ᵻkˈsɛkjᵿtə/, /ɛkˈsɛkjᵿtə/, U.S. /ɪɡˈzɛkjədər/, /ɛɡˈzɛkjədər/
Forms: Middle English executur(e, esecutor, (Middle English exceketour), Middle English excecuto(u)r, Middle English–1500s exequitour, exequutor, Middle English–1600s executour, 1500s exectour, Middle English– executor. See also secutor n.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman executour, < Latin ex(s)ecūtōr-em , agent-noun < exsequī to execute v.
1.
a. One who executes or carries out (a purpose, design, command, work, etc.); one who carries into action, or puts into practice (some quality); a conductor or manager (of affairs); an administrator or enforcer of (a law, vengeance, etc.); an agent, doer, performer, executer; in Scots Law, one who serves a writ or executes a warrant. Now rare except in legal uses: see executer n.
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the world > action or operation > carrying out > [noun] > one who
executor1388
fulfillerc1434
executer1532
executioner1598
executant1858
1388 Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) 1 Esdras v. 58 Executours [1382 foleweris out], or folewers, of the lawe.
1483 Cath. Angl. 119 An Executor, executor.
1567 N. Throgmorton in W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. (1759) II. App. 45 The said Earl [Bothwell] was one of the principal executors of the murder [of Darnley].
1570 J. Foxe tr. Bede in Actes & Monuments (rev. ed.) I. 168/2 Ioseph an excellent doctor and executour of chastitie..and other vertues.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iii. i. 13 Such basenes Had neuer like Executor . View more context for this quotation
1662 W. Petty Treat. Taxes 63 When the executors of them [penal laws] keep them hid until a fault be done.
1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 238 The Executer of his own Vengeance.
1726 J. Leoni Life Alberti in tr. L. B. Alberti Archit. 5 His Assistant and the faithful Executor of his designs.
1752 J. Louthian Form of Process (ed. 2) 83 So soon as the Letters are execute against the Criminal..the Executor is to apprehend and imprison him.
1864 Realm 11 May 1 Ordinary exhibitions result only in the advantage of the shopkeeper; the designer and executor being studiously ignored.
1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. III. §811. 588 His [the mayor's] functions as receiver and executor of writs devolved on the sheriffs of the newly constituted shire.
b. One who performs the duties, etc. (of an office, service, ceremony, etc.).
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the world > action or operation > carrying out > [noun] > of a command, duty, or plan > one who
executorc1450
executioner1587
c1450 Pol., Rel. & L. Poems 7 Executor of this office, dirge for to synge, Shall begynne ye bisshope of seynt as [Asaph].
1548 E. Gest Treat. againste Masse sig. Fiv Bee not also the ful Executors of the same justly named sacryfycers?
1558 W. Forrest Hist. Grisild the Second (1875) 96 He was, emonges other thynges all, The Executor of her Funerall.
1560 in J. Strype Ann. Reformation I. xvii. 214 The ministers receiving the Communion at the hands of the executor.
1841–8 F. Myers Catholic Thoughts II. iv. 218 The Priests were simply sacrificers and executors of ceremonial.
2.
a. = executioner n. Obsolete.
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society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > [noun] > executioner
manquellera1275
officer?1387
smiterc1390
manslayera1425
man's quellerc1429
baserc1480
butcher1483
executora1513
slaughter-slave1556
carnifex1561
executioner1561
deathsman1589
verdugo1616
hals-mana1658
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. clxxxvi. f. cx After whiche sentence..Hebert was by the Executours..moste shamefully hanged.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry V i. ii. 203 The sad eyde Iustice..Deliuering vp to executors pale, the lazy caning Drone.
1612 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. I. O.T. iv. 350 How much rather had they [sc. the Egyptians] to send them [sc. the Israelites] away wealthy, than to haue them stay to bee their executors?
b. One who or that which gives effect to (a passion). Obsolete.
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the mind > emotion > passion > [noun] > that which gives effect to a passion
executorc1386
mind-boggler1969
c1386 G. Chaucer Summoner's Tale 302 Ire engendrith homiside; Ire is in soth executour of pride.
3.
a. A person appointed by a testator to execute or carry into effect his or her will after his or her decease. literary executor n. one who is entrusted with the care of the papers and unpublished works of a person of letters.
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society > law > transfer of property > testamentary disposition > [noun] > management or disposal of estate > one who
executorc1280
secutora1300
minister1405
administrator1434
executor dative1526
ministrator1559
personal representative1796
c1280 Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 19 Þe deuil is his executur, of is gold an is tresure.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 38 Kueade exequitours of bekuydes.
c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Add. MS.) ii. liii. 372 Lordes, or othere rauenours that ben Eyres ande excecutores.
1558 Dunkyn's Mortgage to Vicary in Vicary's Anat. (1888) App. v. 185 The said Thomas Dunkyn, his heyrs, executors, admynystrators or assignes.
1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 43 His Grandfather had been..left by King Harry the Eighth one of the Executours of his last Will.
1771 Brown in Gray's Corr. (1843) 163 No discharge..against any claims which his executors might make.
1858 Ld. St. Leonards Handy Bk. Prop. Law xviii. 141 Creditors or executors may prove a will to which they are attesting witnesses.
1868 M. E. Grant Duff Polit. Surv. 105 Mr. Senior's conversations..which we trust his literary executor will soon publish.
b. in various legal phrases (see quots.).
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1670 T. Blount Νομο-λεξικον: Law-dict. Executor de son tort, or of his own wrong, is he that takes upon him the Office of an Executor by intrusion, not being so constituted by the Testator.
1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (new ed.) II. 507 If a stranger takes upon him to act as executor, without any just authority..he is called in law an executor of his own wrong, de son tort, and is liable to all the trouble of an executorship, without any of the profits or advantages.
1861 G. Ross W. Bell's Dict. Law Scotl. (rev. ed.) 214/2 Confirmation of Executor, is the form in which a title is conferred on the executor of a person deceased, to..administer the defunct's moveable effects [etc.].
1861 G. Ross W. Bell's Dict. Law Scotl. (rev. ed.) 358/1 The office of executor is conferred either by the written nomination of the defunct, or, failing that, by decree of the commissary; the executor, in the former case, being called an executor-nominate, and, in the latter, an executor-dative.
1861 G. Ross W. Bell's Dict. Law Scotl. (rev. ed.) 362/1 Any creditor of the deceased holding a liquid ground of debt may obtain himself confirmed executor-creditor.
c. transferred and figurative.
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a1586 Sir P. Sidney Certaine Sonets in Arcadia (1598) sig. Ss4 His death-bed peacocks folly..His sole exectour blame.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 226 He..destroyeth them..and so maketh himselfe executor to their heapes of hony.
1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets iv. sig. Bv Thy vnus'd beauty must be tomb'd with thee, Which vsed liues th' executor to be. View more context for this quotation
1645 Bp. J. Hall Remedy Discontentm. v. 23 His greatnesse..is dead..before him, and leaves him the surviving executour of his own shame.
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