different between execute vs pursuance

English

Etymology

From Old French executer (French exécuter), from Latin exsecutus, past participle of exsequor, from ex- (“out”) + sequor (“to follow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ks??kju?t/

Verb

execute (third-person singular simple present executes, present participle executing, simple past and past participle executed)

1. (transitive) To kill as punishment for capital crimes.

2. (transitive) To carry out; to put into effect.
3. (transitive) To perform.

4. (transitive, law) To carry out, to perform an act; to put into effect or cause to become legally binding or valid (as a contract) by so doing.

5. (transitive, computing) To start, launch or run

   Synonyms: start, launch, run, open

6. (intransitive, computing) To run, usually successfully.

Related terms

Translations

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ek.se?ku?.te/, [?ks???ku?t??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ek.se?ku.te/, [??z??ku?t??]

Participle

exec?te

1. vocative masculine singular of exec?tus

Portuguese

Verb

execute

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of executar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of executar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of executar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of executar

Spanish

Verb

execute

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of executar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of executar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of executar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of executar.

English

Etymology

pursue +? -ance

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?(?)?sju??ns/, /p?(?)?su??ns/

Noun

pursuance (countable and uncountable, plural pursuances)

1. A search for something; a pursuit or quest.
   • 1653, Jeremy Taylor, Twenty-five Sermons preached at Golden Grove; being for the Winter Half-year

     Sermons are not like curious inquiries after new nothings, but pursuances of old truths.

2. A completion or putting into effect of something already begun; a prosecution.
3. The state of being pursuant; consequence.

Quotations

• 1911 — Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), "Saint Bridget of Sweden"

  About 1350 she went to Rome, partly to obtain from the pope the authorization of the new order, partly in pursuance of her self-imposed mission to elevate the moral tone of the age.