单词 | executory |
释义 | executoryadj.n. A. adj. 1. a. Of or pertaining to the execution or carrying out of a command, decree, law, instructions, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > carrying out > [adjective] effectivea1398 executional1652 executory1659 effectual1662 executivea1676 1659 T. Burton Diary (1828) III. 158 The question is only executory, not declarative; only as a direction to your Committee. 1706 W. Wake Charge to Clergy Lincoln 19 This Constitution..was..only an Executory Declaration of the Ancient Ecclesiastical Law. a1734 R. North Examen (1740) iii. vii. §30 524 The Contrivance at last came out of a Gray's Inn Cabal, as the Persons, active in the executory Part, make plain. 1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 290 What sort of person is a king to command executory service, who has no means whatsoever to reward it? View more context for this quotation 1852 W. E. Gladstone Functions of Laymen in Church 25 The machinery for applying our principles to executory details is..very imperfect. b. Of a law, etc.: In execution or operation; in force, of force, operative. ΚΠ 1483 Act 1 Rich. III c. 6 §4 The aforesaid Ordinance [shall]..be executory from the Feast of the Annunciation..perpetually after to endure. 1651 N. Bacon Contin. Hist. Disc. Govt. xxviii. 224 A Law, that was Executory all the dayes of Henry Eighth. 1791 St. Papers in Ann. Reg. 139* Their decrees are rendered executory without requiring sanction. 1882 Manch. Guard. 21 July The Canal Convention..as far as France is concerned is only executory after the Chamber has ratified it. 1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 13 May 7/2 An action on the judgment..if the court sees in it nothing contrary to French law..may be declared executory without going into the merits. 2. Concerned or charged with the execution of a command, decree, law, etc.; = executive adj. 3. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > [adjective] > relating to executive branch of executative1647 executive1647 executory1647 1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. liv. 152 The power of Militia is either the legislative or executory power. 1796 E. Burke Corr. (1844) IV. 414 As far as I know anything of Mr. Dundas's office, it is merely executory. 1829 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 25 43 The Lord Lieutenant and the Secretary were cut down..into mere executory agents of the British Government. 1858 W. E. Gladstone Stud. Homer II. 128 The lower and executory parts of each of these functions..are taken up..by deities far inferior to her. 3. Law. Of acts or dispositions: Designed to take or capable of taking full effect only at a future time. Opposed to executed. ΚΠ 1592 W. West Symbolæogr.: 1st Pt. §44 C Euerie estate is either executed maintenant, or executorie by limitation of vse. 1670 T. Blount Νομο-λεξικον: Law-dict. at Agreement The third is..Executory, in regard the thing is to be done afterwards. 1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. ii. xxx. 443 A contract..may be executory, as if they agree to change [horses] next week. 1818 H. T. Colebrooke Treat. Obligations & Contracts 16 An executory contract..is one which is to be subsequently fulfilled. 1827 T. Jarman Powell's Ess. Learning of Devises (ed. 3) II. 203 The terms of the executory trust seemed to import that no conveyance was to be made to J. until the death of the wife. 1875 K. E. Digby Introd. Hist. Law Real Prop. vii. 386 Devises of future interests in land, or, as they were called, executory devises. ΘΚΠ society > law > transfer of property > testamentary disposition > [adjective] > executry executory1560 executorial1748 1560 in J. Spottiswood Hist. Church Scotl. (1677) iii. 164 The Rector..of the University must be exempted from all..burdens that may abstract them from attending the youth, such as Tutory, Curatory, Executory, and the like. B. n. ΘΚΠ society > law > transfer of property > testamentary disposition > [noun] > management or disposal of estate ministrationc1390 administration1429 executory1496 executry1769 1496 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (de Worde) ix. vi. 355/2 Them that have mysgoten them by myspurchace, or by withholdynge of dette, or by false executorye. 2. An executive body (see executive n. 2). ΘΚΠ society > authority > control > person in control > [noun] > manager or administrator > body of or collectively management1740 executive1868 executory1868 1868 W. T. Thornton in Fortn. Rev. May 521 Unionist executories have all the requisite capacity for practising the compulsion with which current belief charges them. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.n.1483 |
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