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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

EXECU'TIONER, n. One who executes; one who carries into effect a judgment of death; one who inflicts a capital punishment in pursuance of a legal warrant. It is chiefly used in this sense.
1. He that kills; he that murders.
2. The instrument by which any thing is performed.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an official who inflicts capital punishment in pursuit of a warrant [syn: executioner, public executioner]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1536 one who executes; especially one who puts to death

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. an official who carries out a sentence of death.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Executioner Ex`e*cu"tion*er, n. 1. One who executes; an executer. --Bacon. 2. One who puts to death in conformity to legal warrant, as a hangman.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(executioners) An executioner is a person who has the job of executing criminals. N-COUNT

Easton's Bible Dictionary

(Mark 6:27). Instead of the Greek word, Mark here uses a Latin word, speculator, which literally means "a scout," "a spy," and at length came to denote one of the armed bodyguard of the emperor. Herod Antipas, in imitation of the emperor, had in attendance on him a company of speculatores. They were sometimes employed as executioners, but this was a mere accident of their office. (See MARK, GOSPEL OF.)