Crossword clues for executed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Execute \Ex"e*cute\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Executed; p. pr. & vb. n. Executing.] [F. ex['e]cuter, L. executus, exsecutus, p. p. of exequi to follow to the end, pursue; ex out + sequi to follow. See Second, Sue to follow up, and cf. Exequy.]
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To follow out or through to the end; to carry out into complete effect; to complete; to finish; to effect; to perform.
Why delays His hand to execute what his decree Fixed on this day?
--Milton. To complete, as a legal instrument; to perform what is required to give validity to, as by signing and perhaps sealing and delivering; as, to execute a deed, lease, mortgage, will, etc.
To give effect to; to do what is provided or required by; to perform the requirements or stipulations of; as, to execute a decree, judgment, writ, or process.
To infect capital punishment on; to put to death in conformity to a legal sentence; as, to execute a traitor.
To put to death illegally; to kill. [Obs.]
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(Mus.) To perform, as a piece of music or other feat of skill, whether on an instrument or with the voice, or in any other manner requiring physical activity; as, to execute a difficult part brilliantly; to execute a coup; to execute a double play.
Syn: To accomplish; effect; fulfill; achieve; consummate; finish; complete. See Accomplish.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: execute)
WordNet
adj. put to death as punishment; "claimed the body of the executed traitor"
Usage examples of "executed".
In his mild and conciliatory inaugural address, while appealing to the seceding States to return to their allegiance, he avowed his purpose to keep the solemn oath he had taken that day, to see that the laws of the Union were faithfully executed, and to use the troops to recover the forts, navy yards, and other property belonging to the government.
The merits of men and measures therefore became the subject of discussion in caucus, instead of the halls of legislation, and decisions there made by a minority of the Legislature have been executed and carried into effect by the force of party discipline, without any regard whatever to the rights of the people or the interests of the State.
It was conceived in violence, is maintained in violence, and is being executed in violence.
I say the way it is being executed is quite as good as any of its antecedents.
It is being executed in the precise way which was intended from the first, else why does no Nebraska man express astonishment or condemnation?
He has seen his chief aids in his own State, Shields and Richardson, politically speaking, successively tried, convicted, and executed for an offence not their own but his.
I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States.
The whole of the laws which were required to be faithfully executed were being resisted and failing of execution in nearly one third of the States.
That this order be executed with such promptness and dispatch as not to delay the commencement of the operations already directed to be underwritten by the Army of the Potomac.
General Burnside being the same, of course we wish it executed as promptly as possible.
One of the number is strongly recommended, by the commission which tried them, for commutation to ten years imprisonment I have ordered the other thirty-nine to be executed on Friday the 19th instant.
Please telegraph to me what is the condition of the case, and if he has not been executed send me the record of the trial and conviction.
Was William Gruvier, Company A, Forty-sixth, Pennsylvania, one of the men executed as a deserter last Friday?
It is represented to me that Thomas Edds, in your army, is under sentence of death for desertion, to be executed next Monday.
Please do not let him be executed unless upon further order from me, and in the meantime send me a transcript of the record.