excise
English
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch excijs, altered under the influence of Latin excisus (“cut out, removed”), from earlier accijs (“tax”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French acceis (“tax, assessment”) (whence modern French accise), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Vulgar Latin *accensum, ultimately from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin ad + census (“tax, census”).
Alternative forms
- excize (obsolete)
Pronunciation
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Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -aɪz
Noun
excise (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).
- 1668 July 3rd, James Dalrymple, “Thomas Rue contra Andrew Houſtoun” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 547
- 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.
- 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;
- 1668 July 3rd, James Dalrymple, “Thomas Rue contra Andrew Houſtoun” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 547
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Verb
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- To impose an excise tax on something.
Etymology 2
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From French exciser, from Latin excisus, past participle of excīdō (“cut out”), from ex (“out of, from”) + caedō (“cut”).
Pronunciation
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Verb
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- 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.
- 1987, Ann Rule, page 442 of Small Sacrifices,
- 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.
- 1846, William Youatt, The Dog,
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French
Verb
excise
- first-person singular present indicative of exciser
- third-person singular present indicative of exciser
- first-person singular present subjunctive of exciser
- third-person singular present subjunctive of exciser
- second-person singular imperative of exciser
Latin
Participle
(deprecated template usage) excīse
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