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Webster 1913 Edition
Executor
1.
One who executes or performs; a doer;
as, an
. executor
of basenessShak.
2.
An executioner.
[Obs.]
Delivering o’er to
The lazy, yawning drone.
executors
paw[GREEK]The lazy, yawning drone.
Shakespeare
3.
(Law)
The person appointed by a testator to execute his will, or to see its provisions carried into effect, after his decease.
‖Executor de son tort
[Of., executor of his own wrong]
(Law)
, a stranger who intermeddles without authority in the distribution of the estate of a deceased person.
Webster 1828 Edition
Executor
EXEC'UTOR
,Noun.