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