Thesaurus: executor

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1. n. One who executes or performs; a doer; as, an executor of baseness.
2. n. An executioner.
3. n. The person appointed by a testator to execute his will, or to see its provisions carried into effect, after his decease.
4. n. a person appointed by a testator to carry out the terms of the will
5. 1. One who executes or performs; a doer; as, an executor of baseness. Shak. 2. An executioner. [Obs.] Delivering o'er to executors pa . . . The lazy, yawning drone. Shak. 3. (Law) The person appointed by a Executor de son tort Etym: [Of., executor of his own wrong] (Law), a stranger who intermeddles without authority in the distribution of the estate of a deceased person.
6. The person appointed by a Executor de son tort Etym: [Of.,executor of his own wrong] (Law), a stranger who intermeddles withoutauthority in the distribution of the estate of a deceased person.
7. n:100 n. a person appointed by a testator to carry out the terms of the will