Definition of Execution

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Execution

The act of executing; a carrying into effect or to completion; performance; achievement; consummation; as, the execution of a plan, a work, etc.

A putting to death as a legal penalty; death lawfully inflicted; as, the execution of a murderer.

The act of the mode of performing a work of art, of performing on an instrument, of engraving, etc.; as, the execution of a statue, painting, or piece of music.

The carrying into effect the judgment given in a court of law.

A judicial writ by which an officer is empowered to carry a judgment into effect; final process.

The act of signing, and delivering a legal instrument, or giving it the forms required to render it valid; as, the execution of a deed, or a will.

That which is executed or accomplished; effect; effective work; -- usually with do.

The act of sacking a town.

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Execution Quotations

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
Benjamin Franklin

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
Ansel Adams

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
Niccolo Machiavelli

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.
Chanakya

Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution.
Jay Leno

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
Ulysses S. Grant

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.
Francis Bacon

Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is eighty percent of being a successful hitter. The other twenty percent is just execution.
Hank Aaron

The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
Jack Kevorkian

Execution Translations

execution in Italian is realizzazione
execution in Latin is effectus

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