Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
a person appointed by a testator to carry out the terms of the will;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Executor \Ex*ec"u*tor\, n. [L. executor, exsecutor: cf. F.
ex['e]cuteur. Cf. Executer.]
1. One who executes or performs; a doer; as, an executor of
baseness. --Shak.
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2. An executioner. [Obs.]
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Delivering o'er to executors paw?
The lazy, yawning drone. --Shak.
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3. (Law) The person appointed by a testator to execute his
will, or to see its provisions carried into effect, after
his decease.
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Executor de son tort [Of., executor of his own wrong]
(Law), a stranger who intermeddles without authority in
the distribution of the estate of a deceased person.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
executor
n 1: a person appointed by a testator to carry out the terms of
the will