Word Meanings - EXECUTORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Designed to be executed or carried into effect in time to come, or to take effect on a future contingency; as, an executory devise, reminder, or estate; an executory contract. Blackstone. (more info) 1. Pertaining to administration, or putting

Additional info about word: EXECUTORY

Designed to be executed or carried into effect in time to come, or to take effect on a future contingency; as, an executory devise, reminder, or estate; an executory contract. Blackstone. (more info) 1. Pertaining to administration, or putting the laws in force; executive. The official and executory duties of government. Burke.

Related words: (words related to EXECUTORY)

• DESIGN
  drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace
• CARRIBOO
  See CARIBOU
• CARRIABLE
  Capable of being carried.
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• REMINDER
  One who, or that which, reminds; that which serves to awaken remembrance.
• EXECUTOR
  1. One who executes or performs; a doer; as, an executor of baseness. Shak. 2. An executioner. Delivering o'er to executors pa . . . The lazy, yawning drone. Shak. authority in the distribution of the estate of a deceased person.
• PUTTYROOT
  An American orchidaceous plant which flowers in early summer. Its slender naked rootstock produces each year a solid corm, filled with exceedingly glutinous matter, which sends up later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf. Called
• CONTRACTIBLE
  Capable of contraction. Small air bladders distable and contractible. Arbuthnot.
• EFFECTUOSE; EFFECTUOUS
  Effective. B. Jonson.
• EXECUTORIAL
  Of or pertaining to an executive.
• PUTTER-ON
  An instigator. Shak.
• CARRIAGEABLE
  Passable by carriages; that can be conveyed in carriages. Ruskin.
• EXECUTIVE
  Designed or fitted for execution, or carrying into effect; as, executive talent; qualifying for, concerned with, or pertaining to, the execution of the laws or the conduct of affairs; as, executive power or authority; executive duties, officer,
• PUTT
  A stroke made on the putting green to play the ball into a hole.
• PUTTING GREEN
  The green, or plot of smooth turf, surrounding a hole. "The term putting green shall mean the ground within twenty yards of the hole, excepting hazards." Golf Rules.
• EXECUTIONER
  1. One who executes; an executer. Bacon. 2. One who puts to death in conformity to legal warrant, as a hangman.
• DESIGNATOR
  An officer who assigned to each his rank and place in public shows and ceremonies. 2. One who designates.
• CONTRACTED
  1. Drawn together; shrunken; wrinkled; narrow; as, a contracted brow; a contracted noun. 2. Narrow; illiberal; selfish; as, a contracted mind; contracted views. 3. Bargained for; betrothed; as, a contracted peace. Inquire me out contracted
• DESIGNATIVE
  Serving to designate or indicate; pointing out.
• DESIGNFUL
  Full of design; scheming. -- De*sign"ful*ness, n. Barrow.
• SUBCONTRACTOR
  One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.
• COEXECUTOR
  A joint executor.
• REESTATE
  To reëstablish. Walis.
• MALEXECUTION
  Bad execution. D. Webster.
• DEHONESTATE
  To disparage. (more info) dishonor; de- + honestare to make honorable. Cf. Dishonest, and see
• FOREDESIGN
  To plan beforehand; to intend previously. Cheyne.
• POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
  Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis
• INEFFECTIVENESS
  Quality of being ineffective.