Definition of Execute

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Execute

To follow out or through to the end; to carry out into complete effect; to complete; to finish; to effect; to perform.

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 stimulations 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.

Too put to death illegally; to kill.

To perform, as a piece of music, either on an instrument or with the voice; as, to execute a difficult part brilliantly.

To do one's work; to act one's part of purpose.

To perform musically.

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Execute Quotations

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.
Henry Ford

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.
Marcus Aurelius

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.
Michelangelo

Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.
Grover Cleveland

I've been blessed to find people who are smarter than I am, and they help me to execute the vision I have.
Russell Simmons

To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die.
Luc de Clapier

I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent.
Jesse Ventura

Number three, we're going to play very smart and we're not going to beat ourselves. If the other team is better than us and they just out execute us and play better then we can live with that, but we're going to play smart and give ourselves every opportunity to win the game.
Steve Spurrier

Execute Translations

execute in Dutch is executeren, ter dood brengen
execute in Italian is fare
execute in Latin is fungor; fungi; functus
execute in Portuguese is executar

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