EXECUTIONER Copy link • EXECUTIONERHangman, etc., carnifex: exactor supplicii. ☞ exsecutor in Cod. Just., 8, 17, 17. To be an executioner, carnificinam facere (comedy): to seize upon the office of executioner, munus carnificis occupare: to die by the hands of the executioner, securi or securi illa funesta percuti (if the axe was used). Executor, Vid.