excise

See also: excisé

English

WOTD – 19 August 2008

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]  *accensum, ultimately from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin ad + census (“tax, census”).

Alternative forms

• excize (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛkˌsaɪz/

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• Rhymes: -aɪz

Noun

excise (countable and uncountable, plural excises)

1. 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;

Synonyms

• excise tax

Derived terms

Derived terms

• central excise
• excise house

• exciseman
• unexcised

Translations

excise tax — see excise tax

Verb

1. To impose an excise tax on something.

Etymology 2

(deprecated template usage)

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛkˌsaɪz/, /əkˈsaɪz/
• IPA^(key): /əkˈsaɪz/

• Audio (US)

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Verb

1. 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.

Related terms

• excision

Translations

to cut out, to remove

• Bulgarian: изрязвам (bg) (izrjazvam)
• Czech: vyříznout, (vy)preparovat
• Danish: bortskære
• Finnish: leikata (fi), poistaa (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: ausschneiden, herausschneiden (de), exzidieren
• Greek: εκτέμνω (ektémno)
• Russian: вырезать (ru) (vyrezatʹ)

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French

Verb

excise

1. first-person singular present indicative of exciser
2. third-person singular present indicative of exciser
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of exciser
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of exciser
5. second-person singular imperative of exciser

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Latin

Participle

(deprecated template usage) excīse

1. vocative masculine singular of excīsus