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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. 2. An executioner. [Obs.] Delivering o'er to executors paw? The lazy, yawning drone. --Shak. 3. (Law) The person appointed by a testator to execute his will or to see its provisions carried into effect, after his decease. {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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: executor n : a person appointed by a testator to carry out the terms of the will
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