| 单词 | executor | 
| 释义 | executorn. 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. ΘΚΠ 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.). ΘΚΠ 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.  a.  = executioner n. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ 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? ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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.). ΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < | 
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