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Excise
Definitions
- 1 A tax charged on goods produced within the country (as opposed to customs duties, charged on goods from outside the country). countable, uncountable
"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."
- 2 a tax that is measured by the amount of business done (not on property or income from real estate) wordnet
- 1 To impose an excise tax on something.
- 2 To cut out; to remove.
"[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."
- 3 remove by cutting wordnet
- 4 remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line wordnet
- 5 levy an excise tax on wordnet
Etymology
From Middle Dutch excijs, altered under the influence of Latin excisus (“cut out, removed”), from earlier accijs (“tax”), from Old French acceis (“tax, assessment”) (whence modern French accise), from Vulgar Latin *accensum, ultimately from Latin ad + census (“tax, census”).
From Middle Dutch excijs, altered under the influence of Latin excisus (“cut out, removed”), from earlier accijs (“tax”), from Old French acceis (“tax, assessment”) (whence modern French accise), from Vulgar Latin *accensum, ultimately from Latin ad + census (“tax, census”).
From French exciser, from Latin excisus, past participle of excīdō (“cut out”), from ex (“out of, from”) + caedō (“cut”).
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