Performance
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary · Matthew George Easton, Noah Webster
Performance - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
PERFORM'ANCE, n. Execution or completion of any thing; a doing; as the performance of work or of an undertaking; the performance of duty.
1. Action; deed; thing done.
2. The acting or exhibition of character on the state. Garrick was celebrated for his theatrical performances.
3. Composition; work written.
Few of our comic performances give good examples.
4. The acting or exhibition of feats; as performances of horsemanship.
Source of the article
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
Bible Strong combined digital edition