Excise Definition

ĕksīz
excised, excises, excising
noun
excises
A tax or duty on the manufacture, sale, or consumption of various commodities, as liquor or tobacco, within a country.
Webster's New World
A fee paid for a license to carry on certain occupations, sports, etc.
Webster's New World
A tax on income-producing activities or on actions involving goods, such as their manufacture or sale.
Webster's New World Law

A tax charged on goods produced within the country (as opposed to customs duties, charged on goods from outside the country).

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verb
excised, excises, excising
To put an excise on.
Webster's New World
To remove by or as if by cutting.
Excised the tumor; excised two scenes from the film.
American Heritage
To cut out or away; specif., to remove (a tumor, organ, etc.) surgically.
Webster's New World
To remove by cutting.
American Heritage Medicine
(rare) To perform certain types of female circumcision.
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Other Word Forms of Excise

Noun

Singular:
excise
Plural:
excises

Origin of Excise

  • Middle Dutch excijs alteration (influenced by Latin excīsus) (past participle of excīdere to cut out) of accijs tax probably from Old French acceis partly from Vulgar Latin accēnsum (Latin ad- ad-) (Latin cēnsus tax census) and partly from Old French assise legislative ordinance assize

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle Dutch excijs, altered under the influence of Latin excisus (“cut out, removed”), from earlier accijs (“tax”), from Old French acceis (“tax, assessment”) (whence modern French accise), from Vulgar Latin *accensum, ultimately from Latin ad + census (“tax, census”).

    From Wiktionary

  • From French exciser, from Latin excisus, past participle of excīdō (“cut out”), from ex (“out of, from”) + caedō (“cut”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin excīdere excīs- ex- ex- caedere to cut kaə-id- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Excise Sentence Examples

  • In 1793, when the excise duty was 21d.

  • In 1907 an excise duty was, for the first time, levied on beer.

  • Of the former 46,500,000 pesos are credited to import duties, 31,930,000 pesos to stamps, excise taxes, &c., 10,930,000 pesos to direct taxes, and the balance to various sources.

  • Under the Constitution Act the Commonwealth is given the control of the postal and telegraph departments, public defence and several other services, as well as the power of levying customs and excise duties; its powers of taxation are unrestricted, but so far no taxes Dave been imposed other than those just mentioned.

  • The revenue of Netherlands India has been derived mainly from customs, excise, ground-tax, licences, poll-tax, &c., from monopolies - opium, salt and pawn-shops (the management of which began to be taken over by the government in 1903, in place of the previous system of farming-out), coffee, &c., railways, tin mines and forests, and from agricultural and other concessions.

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