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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
executioner
noun
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▪ Drink was always a problem for some executioners, though it doubtless provided a blessed relief from their horrific duties.
▪ He even found himself liking the gunman in an abstract way, despite Gomez's future role as his executioner.
▪ Horne's mailed executioner carefully cleaned the sword, drew his knife and knelt beside the blood-gushing torso of his victim.
▪ Maskell came close to being the executioner.
▪ One of his executioners drew a sword and beheaded him.
▪ Prison officials drew less passionate executioners from a list of law-enforcement officers.
▪ The baffled executioners were severely reprimanded before getting another crack at Vincent.
▪ The others were beheaded first; her executioner botched her beheading and left her to endure a three-day death.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Executioner

Executioner \Ex`e*cu"tion*er\, n.

  1. One who executes; an executer.
    --Bacon.

  2. One who puts to death in conformity to legal warrant, as a hangman.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
executioner

"headsman," 1560s; "one who carries into effect," 1590s; agent noun from execution. Old English words for it included flæscbana, flæscwellere.

Wiktionary
executioner

n. 1 An official person who carries out the capital punishment of a criminal. 2 (context archaic English) executor 3 A hit man, especially being in a some organization.

WordNet
executioner

n. an official who inflicts capital punishment in pursuit of a warrant [syn: public executioner]

Wikipedia
Executioner

A judicial executioner is a person who carries out a death sentence ordered by the state or other legal authority, which was known in feudal terminology as high justice. Note that the role of an executioner should not be confused with that of an executor, a person who is responsible for executing (meaning "following through on") an assigned task or duty.

Executioner (disambiguation)

An executioner is an officer of the court who carries out capital punishment sentences.

Executioner may also refer to:

  • "The Executioner", a painting by 17th-century Spanish Tenebrist painter Jusepe de Ribera
Executioner (comics)

The Executioner is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Skurge, an Asgardian was originally depicted as a supervillain that wielded a magic double-bladed battle axe. Skurge fell in love with the Enchantress and was frequently used in schemes by her and the trickster god Loki. He was a long-time antagonist of Thor and other heroes of the Marvel universe and was a member of the original Masters of Evil. Eventually, he joined the heroes of Asgard in a mission to Hel, where he sacrificed his axe to destroy Naglfar, the ship of the dead, and delay Ragnarok, and sacrificed his life to hold the bridge at Gjallerbru so the heroes could escape the forces of Hel. After a time trapped in Hel, he joined the honored dead in Valhalla.

The name was later used by two other characters, an axe-wielding android member of the Crazy Gang and a vigilante named Daniel DuBois, the son of Princess Python.

Executioner (album)

Executioner is the debut studio album by heavy metal band Mantic Ritual. It was released in 2009 on Nuclear Blast Records.

Executioner (band)

Executioner was a thrash metal band from Boston that was active from 1984 to 1990.

Executioner (1974 film)

is a 1974 Japanese martial arts film starring Sonny Chiba.

Usage examples of "executioner".

As soon as she had done so, Maude strapped her wrists to the front legs of the apparatus, whilst Alice made her slim ankles fast to the other legs, thus spread-eagling her startlingly jutting, white, twitching bottom out and up in the most lascivious way, so that the secret ambery crease between the naked hillocks was lewdly distended and every portion of her private anatomy exposed not only to the gaze of her executioner but also to the searching tips of the slender withes of the fresh new rod which Maude now handed her chum with sparkling eyes.

My right leg was already in irons, and the left one was in the hands of the man for the completion of that unpleasant ceremony, when the adjutant of his excellency came to tell the executioner to set me at liberty and to return me my sword.

He has also the power to kill me, but he would have to provide the executioner, as he could not make me commit suicide.

But this woman was literally burnt alive: for the executioner letting go the rope sooner than usual, in consequence of the flames reaching his hands, the fire burnt fiercely round her, and the spectators beheld her pushing away the faggots, while she rent the air with her cries and lamentations.

When we had reached a point some ten feet from the secret doorway I halted my companion, and cautioning him to remain absolutely motionless until I gave the prearranged signal I quickly turned my back to the door through which I could almost feel the burning and baleful eyes of our would be executioner.

Such is the way in which Maria Teresa would have argued, and notwithstanding the principle of virtue from which her argument had originated, it had ultimately given birth to all the infamous deeds which her executioners, the Commissaries of Chastity, committed with impunity under her name.

Germain, who had been put in that fearful condition by a female gnome, who had intended to make him the executioner of Semiramis, who was to die of the dreadful malady before her term had expired.

He had swung it many times when he had lived here and done business as Bill Hinch, the most feared executioner Delain had ever known.

Brightblade, not some outlander tricked up like a jackleg executioner.

The entire neighborhood would be sealed off--by police and fire equipment--and the Executioner would be contained within a painfully small hunting preserve, with irate Mafiosi turning every rock in a search for their most hated enemy.

He had known many trades: mercenary in Tasuun, torturer in Naat, executioner in Cincor, jailer in Xylac.

While Paulin stewed, Albertus coldly reconvened the Council by the proper formula, acknowledging Javan as king, and all the members of the Council present tendered their resignations as was customary-which resignations Javan neither accepted nor declined for the moment, though he longed to dismiss Paulin and Albertus then and there, preferably into the hands of an executioner, not that he dared to do so.

Steam power came, but the chair was never brought out of storage, because a more recent Hannegan found the best executioner on this continent in the person of Wooshin, whose ancestors came from a different continent, and who used a hatchet with such artistry and ease that a whole afternoon of severing heads left him untired and tranquil, able to sit in deep meditation for two hours before dinner.

Whatever reasons might have been alleged by these unfortunate princes to defend their life and honor against so incredible an accusation, they were silenced by the furious clamors of the soldiers, who declared themselves, at once, their enemies, their judges, and their executioners.

But he could also see the executioner in the foreground, sitting spraddle legged and calm while he chewed a blade of grass and waited.