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executant, a. and n.|ɛkˈsɛkjʊtənt|
[a. F. exécutant, pr. pple. of exécuter to execute.]
A. adj. That performs (music). rare.
1865Reader No. 123. 523/2 Any living executant musician.
B. n.
1. gen. One who executes, performs, or carries out. Const. of.
1858J. Martineau Studies Chr. 151 This world may be regarded..as the stage of divine agency, using the visible actors as the executants of an invisible thought. 1860Times 11 Oct. 10/6 Mr. Philip being the executant of the whole of the work. 1868Browning Ring & Bk. v. 2003 Absolve then me law's mere executant.
2. esp. A musical performer.
a1859De Quincy in H. A. Page Life (1877) II. xix. 174 All great executants on the organ. 1862R. H. Patterson Ess. Hist. & Art 90 The soul, at once composer and executant. 1872Geo. Eliot Middlem. xvi, Rosamond, with the executant's instinct, had seized his manner of playing. |