Executor
Alternative forms
- executour obsolete
Origin
From Anglo-Norman executour, from Latin executor, agent noun of exequor.
Noun
executor
(plural executors)- A person who carries out some task.
- (legal) Someone appointed by a testator to administer a will; an administrator.
- (obsolete) An executioner.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, , I. ii. 203:The sad-eyed justice, with his surly hum,
Delivering o'er to executors pale
The lazy yawning drone.