Main Entry:: ex·e·cu·tion
Pronunciation:: \ˌek-si-ˈkyü-shən\
Function:: noun
Etymology:: Middle English execucion, from Anglo-French, from Latin exsecution-, exsecutio, from exsequi to execute, from ex- + sequi to follow — more at sue
Date:: 14th century

1: the act or process of executing : performance2: a putting to death especially as a legal penalty3: the process of enforcing a legal judgment (as against a debtor) ; also : a judicial writ directing such enforcement4: the act or mode or result of performance5archaic : effective or destructive action <his brandished steel, which smoked with bloody execution — Shakespeare> —usually used with do<as soon as day came, we went out to see what execution we had done — Daniel Defoe>

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