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Webster 1913 Edition

Executioner

Exˊe-cu′tion-er

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Noun.
1.
One who executes; an executer.
Bacon.
2.
One who puts to death in conformity to legal warrant, as a hangman.

Webster 1828 Edition

Executioner

EXECU'TIONER

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Noun.
One who executes; one who carries into effect a judgment of death; one who inflicts a capital punishment in pursuance of a legal warrant. It is chiefly used in this sense.
1.
He that kills; he that murders.
2.
The instrument by which any thing is performed.

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