Word Meanings - EXECUTIONER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who executes; an executer. Bacon. 2. One who puts to death in conformity to legal warrant, as a hangman.

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• DEATHLIKE
  1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak.
• BACON
  The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle , a beetle which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's
• DEATHLY
  Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.
• BACONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction.
• DEATHLINESS
  The quality of being deathly; deadliness. Southey.
• LEGALITY
  1. The state or quality of being letter of the law.
• DEATHWATCH
  A small beetle . By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death. A small wingless insect, of the family Psocidæ,
• WARRANTOR
  One who warrants.
• CONFORMITY
  1. Correspondence in form, manner, or character; resemblance; agreement; congruity; -- followed by to, with, or between. By our conformity to God. Tillotson. The end of all religion is but to draw us to a conformity with God. Dr. H.More.
• LEGALIZE
  To interpret or apply in a legal spirit. (more info) 1. To make legal.
• DEATHWARD
  Toward death.
• HANGMAN
  One who hangs another; esp., one who makes a business of hanging; a public executioner; -- sometimes used as a term of reproach, without reference to office. Shak.
• LEGALLY
  In a legal manner.
• WARRANTISE
  Authority; security; warranty. Shak.
• WARRANTER
  One who assures, or covenants to assure; one who contracts to secure another in a right, or to make good any defect of title or quality; one who gives a warranty; a guarantor; as, the warranter of a horse. (more info) 1. One who warrants, gives
• WARRANT
  protector, F. garant, originally a p. pr. pf German origin, fr. OHG. weren to grant, warrant, G. gewähren; akin to OFries. wera. Cf. 1. That which warrants or authorizes; a commission giving authority, or justifying the doing of anything; an act,
• DEATH
  Loss of spiritual life. To be death. Rom. viii. 6. 9. Anything so dreadful as to be like death. It was death to them to think of entertaining such doctrines. Atterbury. And urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death. Judg. xvi. 16. Note: Death
• EXECUTER
  One who performs or carries into effect. See Executor.
• DEATHFULNESS
  Appearance of death. Jer. Taylor.
• DEATH'S-HERB
  The deadly nightshade . Dr. Prior.
• UNWARRANTABLE
  Not warrantable; indefensible; not vindicable; not justifiable; illegal; unjust; improper. -- Un*war"rant*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*war"rant*a*bly, adv.
• INCONFORMITY
  Want of conformity; nonconformity.
• ILLEGAL
  Not according to, or authorized by, law; specif., contrary to, or in violation of, human law; unlawful; illicit; hence, immoral; as, an illegal act; illegal trade; illegal love. Bp. Burnet.
• ILLEGALNESS
  Illegality, unlawfulness.
• UNWARRANTED
  Not warranted; being without warrant, authority, or guaranty; unwarrantable.
• ILLEGALITY
  The quality or condition of being illegal; unlawfulness; as, the illegality of trespass or of false imprisonment; also, an illegal act.
• ILLEGALIZE
  To make or declare illegal or unlawful.