Execute
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( v. t.) To complete, as a legal instrument; to perform what is required to give validity to, as by signing and perhaps sealing and delivering; as, to execute a deed, lease, mortgage, will, etc.
(2): ( v. t.) To infect capital punishment on; to put to death in conformity to a legal sentence; as, to execute a traitor.
(3): ( v. t.) To follow out or through to the end; to carry out into complete effect; to complete; to finish; to effect; to perform.
(4): ( v. t.) To perform, as a piece of music, either on an instrument or with the voice; as, to execute a difficult part brilliantly.
(5): ( v. t.) To give effect to; to do what is provided or required by; to perform the requirements or stimulations of; as, to execute a decree, judgment, writ, or process.
(6): ( v. i.) To perform musically.
(7): ( v. t.) Too put to death illegally; to kill.
(8): ( v. i.) To do one's work; to act one's part of purpose.
King James Dictionary [2]
Ex'Ecute, L. exequor, for exsequor ex and sequor, to follow. See Seek.
1. Literally, to follow out or through. Hence, to perform to do to effect to carry into complete effect to complete to finish. We execute a purpose, a plan, design or scheme we execute a work undertaken, that is, we pursue it to the end. 2. To perform to inflict as, to execute judgment or vengeance. 3. To carry into effect as, to execute law or justice. 4. To carry into effect the law, or the judgment or sentence on a person to inflict capital punishment on to put to death as, to execute a traitor. 5. To kill. 6. To complete, as a legal instrument to perform what is required to give validity to a writing, as by signing and sealing as, to execute a deed or lease.
Ex'Ecute, To perform the proper office to produce an effect.
