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noun
1.
an internal tax or duty on certain commodities, as liquor or tobacco, levied on their manufacture, sale, or consumption within the country.
2.
a tax levied for a license to carry on certain employments, pursue certain sports, etc.
3.
British. the branch of the civil service that collects excise taxes.
verb (used with object)
4.
to impose an excise on.
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Excised
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Origin:
1485–95; apparently < Middle Dutch excijs, variant of accijs < Medieval Latin accīsa tax, literally, a cut, noun use of feminine past participle of Latin accīdere to cut into, equivalent to ac- ac- + cīd-, variant stem of caedere to cut + -ta feminine past participle suffix, with dt > s
1485–95; apparently < Middle Dutch excijs, variant of accijs < Medieval Latin accīsa tax, literally, a cut, noun use of feminine past participle of Latin accīdere to cut into, equivalent to ac- ac- + cīd-, variant stem of caedere to cut + -ta feminine past participle suffix, with dt > s
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verb (used with object), -cised, -cis·ing.
1.
to expunge, as a passage or sentence, from a text.
2.
to cut out or off, as a tumor.
Related forms
ex·cis·a·ble, adjective
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excise
"cut out," late 15c. (implied in excision), from M.Fr. exciser, from L. excisus, pp. of excidere "cut out, removed." Related: Excised; excising.
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excise ex·cise (ĭk-sīz')
v. ex·cised, ex·cis·ing, ex·cis·es
To remove by cutting.
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