Excise
WordNet
noun
(1) A tax that is measured by the amount of business done (not on property or income from real estate)
verb
(2) Remove by cutting
"The surgeon excised the tumor"
(3) Remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line
"Please strike this remark from the record"
"Scratch that remark"
(4) Levy an excise tax on
WiktionaryText
Etymology 1
From , from .
Noun
- 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",
Etymology 2
From , past participle of from + , via .
Verb
- 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,
- To perform certain types of female circumcision.