Excise

Noun

 * 1) A tax charged on goods produced within the country (as opposed to customs duties, charged on goods from outside the country).
 * 2) * 1755, Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language, "excise",
 * A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom Excise is paid.
 * 1) * 1787, Constitution of the United States of America, Article I, Section 8,
 * The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, to pay the debts of the United States;

Synonyms

 * excise tax

Derived terms

 * central excise
 * excise house
 * exciseman
 * unexcised

Verb

 * 1) To impose an excise tax on something.

Verb

 * 1) To cut out; to remove.
 * 2) * 1846, William Youatt, The Dog,
 * [T]hey [warts] may be lifted up with the forceps, and excised with a knife or scissors, and the wound touched with nitrate of silver.
 * 1) * 1901, Andrew Lang, Preface to the second edition of Myth, Ritual, and Religion,
 * In revising the book I have excised certain passages which, as the book first appeared, were inconsistent with its main thesis.
 * 1)  To perform certain types of female circumcision.

Related terms

 * excision

Thesaurus
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Etymology 1
From excijs: (under the influence of Latin excisus:), accijs:, from  acceis:.

Etymology 2
From excisus:, past participle of excido: from ex: + caedo:, via  exciser:.

Verb

 * Czech: ,
 * Greek: εκτέμνω (ektemno)


 * Russian: вырезать