exsecutrix

exsecutrix (exe-) [LL] 1 one who performs (action), carries out (task) (f.). hec eorum [sc. demonum] nuncia nequam et ~ix irarum Map NC II 14 f. 28; ~ix sororum discordias pacificare studeat Collect. Ox. I 47; ac si natura inferior esset ~ix in opere eorum que ordinata sunt ab intelligencia movente Siccav. PN 196. 2 executrix (of will): a (w. testamenti or sim.); b (w. gen. of testator). a 1287 potestatem recipiendi attornatos Johanne de B., ~icis testamenti Thome Brun (Dedimus Potestatem) MS PRO C 254/11/117; 1303 testamenti mei ‥ facio ‥ uxorem meam ~icem principalem Deeds Balliol 167; 1333 Hawys[ia] uxor Johannis de Wykham, ~ix testamenti ejusdem J. supplicavit LTR Mem 105 m. 24 (rec.); I. que fuit uxor H. ~ix testamenti ejusdem H. Reg. Brev. Orig. 58; 1520 (v. doaressa); 1549 in denariis ‥ solutis Elianore comitisse dotisse Rutland’, ~ici ultime voluntatis Thome nuper comitis Rutland MSS Ac. Receiver 2–3 Ed. VI r. 4.  b 1294 contra Emmam relictam Edmundi P. et ejusdem Edmundi ~icem SelCCant 411; s1302 Dionisia de Monte Caniso, ~ix domini Willelmi de Monte Caniso Mon. Francisc. I 503 (= Grey Friars Lond. 154).