EXECUTE Copy link • EXECUTEexsequi: persequi (to follow up anything till it is done, especially of things done by rule or direction, officium, mandata): conficere (to bring to an end, so that the labor is over; to finish, without reference to the production of a perfect work: itinera, mandata, conficiuntur, non perficiuntur nec absolvuntur, D.): efficere: ad effectum adducere (to bring to actual existence): perficere (to carry through to the end; to make anything perfect; opposed to inchoare, to begin): absolvere (to finish off, so that no more remains to be done; to make complete; opposed to inchoare, instituere). (The words are found in this connection and order.) absolvere ac (et) perficere: peragere (to carry a business through): sometimes facere alone (opposed to cogitare). To be able to execute anything, *parem esse alicui rei exsequendae: to execute a commission, jussum or imperatum facere: mandata efficere, conficere, perficere, exsequi, persequi; in the exactest manner, mandata exhaurire: imperio alicujus defungi: to execute a will, testamentum facere (general term) or conficere. Punish capitally, supplicium capitis sumere de aliquo: supplicio capitis afficere aliquem: aliquem supplicio punire: aliquem morte multare: to execute (if the mode is beheading), caput alicujus praecidere (with the sword; it would be wrong to say caput cervicibus abscidere; unless the person is first strangled, Cic., Phil., 2, 2, cervicibus fractis caput abscidit): securi ferire or percutere (with the axe, as the instrument used by the executioner): decollare (as a general term, post-Augustan; Sen. and Suet., and even then rejected from the more elevated style): to be tortured and then executed, omni supplicio excruciatum, or omnibus cruciatibus affectum necari.