 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
executor
noun: a person appointed by a testator to carry out the terms of
the will
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Executor \Ex*ec"u*tor\, noun [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 Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
65 Moby Thesaurus words for "executor":
actor, agent, ancestors, apprentice, architect, artificer, artist,
author, begetter, beginner, builder, conceiver, constructor,
craftsman, creator, designer, deviser, discoverer, doer, effector,
engenderer, engineer, executant, executrix, fabricator, father,
founder, generator, grower, inaugurator, industrialist, initiator,
instigator, institutor, introducer, inventor, journeyman, maker,
manufacturer, master, master craftsman, medium, mother, mover,
operant, operative, operator, organizer, originator, past master,
performer, perpetrator, planner, practitioner, precursor,
prime mover, producer, raiser, realizer, shaper, sire, smith,
subject, worker, wright
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