'Executioner' definitions:
Definition of 'executioner'
(from WordNet)
noun
An official who inflicts capital punishment in pursuit of a warrant [syn: executioner, public executioner]
Definition of 'Executioner'
From: GCIDE
- Executioner \Ex`e*cu"tion*er\, n.
- 1. One who executes; an executer. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 2. One who puts to death in conformity to legal warrant, as a hangman. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'executioner'
From: Easton
- Executioner (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.)