excise1
[noun ek-sahyz, -sahys; verb ek-sahyz, ik-sahyz]
- an internal tax or duty on certain commodities, as liquor or tobacco, levied on their manufacture, sale, or consumption within the country.
- a tax levied for a license to carry on certain employments, pursue certain sports, etc.
- British. the branch of the civil service that collects excise taxes.
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- to impose an excise on.
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Origin of excise1
1485–95; apparently < Middle Dutch excijs, variant of accijs < Medieval Latin accīsa tax, literally, a cut, noun use of feminine past participle of Latin accīdere to cut into, equivalent to ac- ac- + cīd-, variant stem of caedere to cut + -ta feminine past participle suffix, with dt > s
excise2
[ik-sahyz]
- to expunge, as a passage or sentence, from a text.
- to cut out or off, as a tumor.
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Origin of excise2
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Contemporary Examples
Like Fosse did with Cabaret, Marshall excised two major characters: the Narrator and the Mysterious Man.
And should a silly, sometimes slight comedy like Veep be excised to include yet another harrowing drama, Rectify?
The Best TV Shows of 2013: ‘Orange Is the New Black,’ ‘Breaking Bad’ and MoreKevin Fallon
December 13, 2013
That demeaning blind quote has since been excised from the online version of the article.
Both writers include explicit sex scenes in their novels, the kind that would normally be excised from modern romance fiction.
In Pedigree he seems to have collected all of these excised sentences into one book (which may explain its length).
Historical Examples
That is the case presented by the Dame's papers, when the incredible is excised.
The Amazing Marriage, CompleteGeorge Meredith
If the condition has arisen, the pseudo-sac should be excised.
If discovered at once the bitten part had better be excised.
Special Report on Diseases of CattleU.S. Department of Agriculture
I have excised all you proposed and more on my own movement.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25)Robert Louis Stevenson
His wound was excised, "spirit bipped," dressed and bandaged.
Combed OutFritz August Voigt
excise1
- Also called: excise tax a tax on goods, such as spirits, produced for the home market
- a tax paid for a licence to carry out various trades, sports, etc
- British that section of the government service responsible for the collection of excise, now part of HMRC
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Word Origin
C15: probably from Middle Dutch excijs, probably from Old French assise a sitting, assessment, from Latin assidēre to sit beside, assist in judging, from sedēre to sit
excise2
- to delete (a passage, sentence, etc); expunge
- to remove (an organ, structure, or part) surgically
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Word Origin
C16: from Latin excīdere to cut down; see excide
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Word Origin and History for excised
excise
n.
"tax on goods," late 15c., from Middle Dutch excijs (early 15c.), apparently altered from accijs "tax" (by influence of Latin excisus "cut out or removed," see excise (v.)), traditionally from Old French acceis "tax, assessment" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *accensum, ultimately from Latin ad- "to" (see ad-) + census "tax, census" (see census). English got the word, and the idea for the tax, from Holland.
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
excise
(ĭk-sīz′)- To remove by cutting.
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