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countable and uncountable, plural excises
A tax charged on goods produced within the country (as opposed to customs duties, charged on goods from outside the country). quotations examples
Andrew Houſtoun and Adam Muſhet, being Tackſmen of the Excize, did Imploy Thomas Rue to be their Collector, and gave him a Sallary of 30. pound Sterling for a year.
1668 July 3rd, James Dalrymple, “Thomas Rue contra Andrew Houſtoun” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 547
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.
1755, Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language, "excise"
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, to pay the debts […] of the United States;
1787, Constitution of the United States of America, Article I, Section 8
third-person singular simple present excises, present participle excising, simple past and past participle excised
To impose an excise tax on something. examples
To cut out; to remove. quotations examples
[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.
1846, William Youatt, The Dog
In revising the book I […] have excised certain passages which, as the book first appeared, were inconsistent with its main thesis.
1901, Andrew Lang, Preface to the second edition of Myth, Ritual, and Religion
In the opposite direction the allowance of 103 min. for the 83.8 miles from Waterloo to Salisbury, which has remained untouched since the worst period in the war, when it included a Woking stop that long since has been excised, was another timing that left drivers completely nonplussed at times as to how to fill it out.
1949 July and August, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 257
Insanity can be cured. Personality disorders are so inextricably entwined with the heart and mind and soul that it is well-nigh impossible to excise them.
1987, Ann Rule, Small Sacrifices, page 442
A person is guilty of an offence if he excises, infibulates or otherwise mutilates the whole or any part of a girl’s labia majora, labia minora or clitoris.
2003, Parliament of the United Kingdom, “Section 1(1)”, in Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003, page 14