Word Meanings - EXECUTORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Designed to be executed or carried into effect in time to come, or to take effect on a future contingency; as, an executory devise, reminder, or estate; an executory contract. Blackstone. (more info) 1. Pertaining to administration, or putting
Additional info about word: EXECUTORY
Designed to be executed or carried into effect in time to come, or to take effect on a future contingency; as, an executory devise, reminder, or estate; an executory contract. Blackstone. (more info) 1. Pertaining to administration, or putting the laws in force; executive. The official and executory duties of government. Burke.
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- DESIGN
drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace - CARRIBOO
See CARIBOU - CARRIABLE
Capable of being carried. - DESIGNATE
Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck. - REMINDER
One who, or that which, reminds; that which serves to awaken remembrance. - EXECUTOR
1. One who executes or performs; a doer; as, an executor of baseness. Shak. 2. An executioner. Delivering o'er to executors pa . . . The lazy, yawning drone. Shak. authority in the distribution of the estate of a deceased person. - PUTTYROOT
An American orchidaceous plant which flowers in early summer. Its slender naked rootstock produces each year a solid corm, filled with exceedingly glutinous matter, which sends up later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf. Called - CONTRACTIBLE
Capable of contraction. Small air bladders distable and contractible. Arbuthnot. - EFFECTUOSE; EFFECTUOUS
Effective. B. Jonson. - EXECUTORIAL
Of or pertaining to an executive. - PUTTER-ON
An instigator. Shak. - CARRIAGEABLE
Passable by carriages; that can be conveyed in carriages. Ruskin. - EXECUTIVE
Designed or fitted for execution, or carrying into effect; as, executive talent; qualifying for, concerned with, or pertaining to, the execution of the laws or the conduct of affairs; as, executive power or authority; executive duties, officer, - PUTT
A stroke made on the putting green to play the ball into a hole. - PUTTING GREEN
The green, or plot of smooth turf, surrounding a hole. "The term putting green shall mean the ground within twenty yards of the hole, excepting hazards." Golf Rules. - EXECUTIONER
1. One who executes; an executer. Bacon. 2. One who puts to death in conformity to legal warrant, as a hangman. - DESIGNATOR
An officer who assigned to each his rank and place in public shows and ceremonies. 2. One who designates. - CONTRACTED
1. Drawn together; shrunken; wrinkled; narrow; as, a contracted brow; a contracted noun. 2. Narrow; illiberal; selfish; as, a contracted mind; contracted views. 3. Bargained for; betrothed; as, a contracted peace. Inquire me out contracted - DESIGNATIVE
Serving to designate or indicate; pointing out. - DESIGNFUL
Full of design; scheming. -- De*sign"ful*ness, n. Barrow. - SUBCONTRACTOR
One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor. - COEXECUTOR
A joint executor. - REESTATE
To reëstablish. Walis. - MALEXECUTION
Bad execution. D. Webster. - DEHONESTATE
To disparage. (more info) dishonor; de- + honestare to make honorable. Cf. Dishonest, and see - FOREDESIGN
To plan beforehand; to intend previously. Cheyne. - POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis - INEFFECTIVENESS
Quality of being ineffective.