#execution

• Addolcendo — A musical execution term of Italian origin, literally meaning 'sweetening' or 'softening'. It instructs the performer to transition smoothly toward a warmer, more melodious, soft, and velvety sound emission, gradually reducing any harshness or intensity to enhance the lyrical expressiveness of the passage.
• Application — The act of applying and its direct result; putting into practice a law, method, theory, or economic strategy; the physical placing or fixing of an object onto a base surface. In a legal context, it represents the official enforcement of a norm by courts, ensuring the transition from abstract concept to mandatory structural reality.
• Court official — A historical official in the Romanian Principalities (Moldavia and Wallachia) who held major judicial and executive administrative functions, tasked with guarding prisons, executing corporal or capital punishments ordered by the ruling prince, and supervising the artillery (the army's firearms). In a general sense, the title designated an executor of princely orders and guardian of court security.
• Arpeggiando — A musical performance directive indicating that the notes of a chord should not be played simultaneously, but successively, from lowest to highest or vice versa, mimicking the characteristic plucking technique of the harp. Unlike a structural arpeggio, this term functions as a dynamic stylistic instruction, demanding fluidity and distinct individuality for each sound component.
• Throws — The plural form of the feminine noun 'aruncătură'; repeated acts of projecting, casting, or throwing objects or bodies through space. In a technical or sporting sense, it defines a series of consecutive executions or specific attempts in a competition, while in common or literary language it often refers to intermittent glances, random remarks, or short distances estimated empirically.
• Assassinate — To kill a person with premeditation, by surprise, or through treachery, most often to achieve political, financial purposes, or out of revenge. In a figurative sense, it represents the action of violently or treacherously destroying or degrading someone's reputation, career, work, or plans.
• Atahualpa — The last sovereign emperor of the Inca Empire before the Spanish conquest, ruling in the 16th century. After defeating his brother Huáscar in a bloody civil war for succession, he was captured by surprise by the conquistador Francisco Pizarro during the Battle of Cajamarca and subsequently executed by the Spaniards in 1533, despite paying a massive ransom in gold and silver.
• Atropinization — The act of atropinizing and its result; an emergency medical protocol consisting of the controlled and progressive administration of atropine to a patient poisoned with neurotoxic or organophosphorus substances. This structural process aims to completely block muscarinic receptors to halt bronchial hypersecretion, bradycardia, and respiratory collapse until clinical signs of impregnation are achieved.
• Auto-da-fe — A solemn public ceremony organized by the Inquisition, especially in Spain and Portugal between the 15th and 19th centuries, during which sentences pronounced against heretics or those accused of religious offenses were proclaimed and executed. Although the term strictly refers to the proclamation of faith and the verdict, it has become synonymous in common parlance with the burning at the stake of convicts or books deemed subversive.
• Auto-da-fe — A literary and graphic variant for the term autodafe, derived directly from the French pronunciation and spelling; a solemn public ceremony organized in the past by the Inquisition tribunal for proclaiming and executing sentences against heretics, often concluding with the burning at the stake of convicts or writings deemed subversive.