Word Meanings - INEXECUTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Neglect of execution; nonperformance; as, the inexecution of a treaty. Spence.

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• SPENCE
  despendre to spend, distribute, L. dispendere, dispensum. See 1. A place where provisions are kept; a buttery; a larder; a pantry. Chiefly Brit. dial. In . . . his spence, or "pantry" were hung the carcasses of a sheep or ewe, and two cows lately
• NEGLECT
  disregard, neglect, the literal sense prob. neing, not to pick up; nec not, nor (fr. ne not + -que, a particle akin to Goth. -h, -uh, and prob. to E. who; cf. Goth. nih nor) + L. legere to pick up, 1. Not to attend to with due care or attention;
• EXECUTIONER
  1. One who executes; an executer. Bacon. 2. One who puts to death in conformity to legal warrant, as a hangman.
• NEGLECTION
  The state of being negligent; negligence. Shak.
• SPENCER
  One who has the care of the spence, or buttery. Promptorium Parvulorum.
• NEGLECTFUL
  Full of neglect; heedless; careless; negligent; inattentive; indifferent. Pope. A cold and neglectful countenance. Locke. Though the Romans had no great genius for trade, yet they were not entirely neglectful of it. Arbuthnot. -- Neg*lect"ful*ly,
• NEGLECTEDNESS
  The state of being neglected.
• NEGLECTER
  One who neglects. South.
• NEGLECTINGLY
  Carelessly; heedlessly. Shak.
• NEGLECTIVE
  Neglectful. "Neglective of their own children." Fuller.
• TREATY
  tractatus; cf. L. tractatus a handling, treatment, consultation, 1. The act of treating for the adjustment of differences, as for forming an agreement; negotiation. "By sly and wise treaty." Chaucer. He cast by treaty and by trains Her to persuade.
• NONPERFORMANCE
  Neglect or failure to perform.
• INEXECUTION
  Neglect of execution; nonperformance; as, the inexecution of a treaty. Spence.
• EXECUTION
  1. The act of executing; a carrying into effect or to completion; performance; achievement; consummation; as, the execution of a plan, a work, etc. The excellence of the subject contributed much to the happiness of the execution. Dryden.
• MALEXECUTION
  Bad execution. D. Webster.
• ENTREATY
  1. Treatment; reception; entertainment. B. Jonson. 2. The act of entreating or beseeching; urgent prayer; earnest petition; pressing solicitation. Fair entreaty, and sweet blandishment. Spenser. Syn. -- Solicitation; request; suit; supplication;
• SELF-NEGLECTING
  A neglecting of one's self, or of one's own interests. Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin As self-neglecting. Shak.
• DISPENCE
  See DISPENSE
• NONEXECUTION
  Neglect or failure of execution; nonperformance.