Executor
Executor , noun
[Latin executor, exsecutor: compare French exécuteur. Compare Executer.]
1.
One who executes or performs; a doer; as, an executor of baseness. — Shakespeare
2.
An executioner. [Obsolete]
Delivering o'er to executors paw{not transcribed}
The lazy, yawning drone.
3.
(Law) The person appointed by a testator to execute his will, or to see its provisions carried into effect, after his decease.
Collocations (1)
\'d8Executor de son tort (Law) , a stranger who intermeddles without authority in the distribution of the estate of a deceased person.