Talk:executioner

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executioner

Rfv-sense 2: "someone who executes the will or act of someone" - isn't it executor? --Duncan MacCall 21:26, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Yes. But there is also a missing, dated sense that possibly might be read to include it. See Webster 1913. Also see Online Ety Dict.. I don't have convenient access to OED. DCDuring TALK 22:53, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

OED has "One who executes or carries into effect (a command, design, instructions, law, justice, etc.); a perpetrator (of an evil deed). Rare in mod. use." with citations from 1598 to 1879 (tagged as "rare in modern use")
and also "One who performs the duties of a place or office." (obsolete and rare)
but it also has "One who carries a sentence or judgement into effect: a punisher." and this is not marked as such, but I would consider it dated. Dbfirs 13:30, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

So we don't have much support that the modern meaning of executor (of a will or an estate) was ever a main meaning of executioner. At best it could have been incidentally included in the first OED sense you give. Let's if anyone produces evidence to the contrary. DCDuring TALK 23:37, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

I redefined it as {{archaic}} [[executor]]; left it tagged though. --Duncan 13:59, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Untagged, striking. --Duncan 12:56, 5 April 2009 (UTC)