executor
noun
a person who executes, carries out, or performs some duty, job, assignment, artistic work, etc.
executorial
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a word derived from
executor.
Example Sentences
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It was friendly in the squire to give me this mass of executorial accounts to arrange.
From Gifts of Genius A Miscellany of Prose and Poetry by American Authors by Various
I told as much to Annie, who alone knew all; and her smile, inexpressibly sweet and filled with thanks, was my sole executorial "commission."
From Gifts of Genius A Miscellany of Prose and Poetry by American Authors by Various
Yet now the first rush of executorial emotion is over I can begin to doubt about Boon’s intention in making me his “literary executor.”
From Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
The executorial accounts, whose terrible disarrangement I had aided, five years before, in remedying, still hung over the dying man's head, like a nightmare.
From Gifts of Genius A Miscellany of Prose and Poetry by American Authors by Various
I am glad to say that my reëxamination of the executorial accounts, which had so troubled the poor dying gentleman, proved his fears quite unfounded.
From Gifts of Genius A Miscellany of Prose and Poetry by American Authors by Various
