What does "executor" mean?

Executor: An executioner. [Obs.] Delivering o'er to executors pa . . . The lazy, yawning drone. Shak.

Additional senses

  1. 2.(Law) The person appointed by a Executor de son tort Etym: [Of., executor of his own wrong] (Law), a stranger who intermeddles without authority in the distribution of the estate of a deceased person.

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