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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Executive \Ex*ec"u*tive\, n.
An impersonal title of the chief magistrate or officer who
administers the government, whether king, president, or
governor; the governing person or body.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Executive \Ex*ec"u*tive\, a. [Cf.F. ex['e]cutif.]
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, department, etc
Note: In government, executive is distinguished from
legislative and judicial; legislative being applied to
the organ or organs of government which make the laws;
judicial, to that which interprets and applies the
laws; executive, to that which carries them into effect
or secures their due performance.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
executive
adj : having the function of carrying out plans or orders etc.;
"the executive branch"
n 1: a person responsible for the administration of a business
[syn: {executive director}]
2: persons who administer the law
3: someone who manages a government agency or department [syn:
{administrator}]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]:
executive
The {command interpreter} or {shell} for an
{operating system}. The term is used especially around
{mainframes} and probably derived from {UNIVAC}'s archaic
{EXEC 2} and current (in 2000) {EXEC 8} {operating systems}.
(2000-08-06)
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to
enforce the wishes of the legislative power until such time as the
judicial department shall be pleased to pronounce them invalid and of
no effect. Following is an extract from an old book entitled, _The
Lunarian Astonished_ -- Pfeiffer & Co., Boston, 1803:
LUNARIAN: Then when your Congress has passed a law it goes
directly to the Supreme Court in order that it may at once be
known whether it is constitutional?
TERRESTRIAN: O no it does not require the approval of the
Supreme Court until having perhaps been enforced for many
years somebody objects to its operation against himself -- I
mean his client. The President, if he approves it begins to
execute it at once.
LUNARIAN: Ah the executive power is a part of the legislative.
Do your policemen also have to approve the local ordinances
that they enforce?
TERRESTRIAN: Not yet -- at least not in their character of
constables. Generally speaking, though, all laws require the
approval of those whom they are intended to restrain.
LUNARIAN: I see The death warrant is not valid until signed by
the murderer.
TERRESTRIAN: My friend, you put it too strongly; we are not so
consistent.
LUNARIAN: But this system of maintaining an expensive judicial
machinery to pass upon the validity of laws only after they
have long been executed, and then only when brought before the
court by some private person -- does it not cause great
confusion?
TERRESTRIAN: It does
LUNARIAN: Why then should not your laws, previously to being
executed, be validated, not by the signature of your
President, but by that of the Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court?
TERRESTRIAN: There is no precedent for any such course.
LUNARIAN: Precedent. What is that?
TERRESTRIAN: It has been defined by five hundred lawyers in three
volumes each So how can any one know?
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