Excise
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English
Noun
Excise (plural Excises)- A tax charged on goods produced within the country (as opposed to customs duties, charged on goods from outside the country).
- 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.
- 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;
- 1755, Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language, "excise",
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Derived terms
Verb
Excise (third-person singular simple present Excises, present participle excising, simple past and past participle excised)
- To impose an excise tax on something.
Verb
Excise (third-person singular simple present Excises, present participle excising, simple past and past participle excised)
- To cut out; to remove.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1846, William Youatt, The Dog,
- (rare) To perform certain types of female circumcision.
Related terms
Thesaurus
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Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch excijs (under the influence of Latin excisus), accijs, from Old French acceis.
Pronunciation
Etymology 2
From Latin excisus, past participle of excīdō (“cut out”) from ex (“out of, from”) + caedō (“cut”), via French exciser.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA: /ˈɛkˌsaɪz/, /əkˈsaɪz/, SAMPA: /"Ek%saIz/, /@k"saIz/
- (US) IPA: /əkˈsaɪz/, SAMPA: /@k"saIz/
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Translations
Verb
French
Verb
Excise
- first-person singular present indicative of exciser
- third-person singular present indicative of exciser
- first-person singular present subjunctive of exciser
- first-person singular present subjunctive of exciser
- second-person singular imperative of exciser
Latin
Participle
excīse
- vocative masculine singular of excīsus
