FromMiddle Dutchexcijs, altered under the influence of Latinexcisus(“cut out, removed”), from earlieraccijs(“tax”), fromOld Frenchacceis(“tax, assessment”) (whence modernFrenchaccise), fromVulgar Latin*accensum, ultimately fromLatinad +census(“tax, census”).
excise (countable anduncountable,pluralexcises)
- Atax charged on goodsproducedwithin the country (as opposed tocustomsduties, charged on goods from outside the country).
- 1668 July 3rd,James Dalrymple, “Thomas Ruecontra Andrew Houſtoun” inThe Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683),page 547
- Andrew Houſtoun andAdam Muſhet, being Tackſmen of theExcize, did ImployThomas Rue to be their Collector, and gave him a Sallary of 30. poundSterling 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 whomExcise 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, andexcises, to pay the debts […] of the United States;
excise (third-person singular simple presentexcises,present participleexcising,simple past and past participleexcised)
- Toimpose an excise tax on something.
FromFrenchexciser, fromLatinexcisus, past participle ofexcīdō(“cut out”), fromex(“out of, from”) +caedō(“cut”).
excise (third-person singular simple presentexcises,present participleexcising,simple past and past participleexcised)
- Tocut out; toremove.
1846, William Youatt,The Dog:[T]hey [warts] may be lifted up with the forceps, andexcised with a knife or scissors, and the wound touched with nitrate of silver.
- 1901,Andrew Lang, Preface to the second edition ofMyth, Ritual, and Religion,
- In revising the book I […] haveexcised certain passages which, as the book first appeared, were inconsistent with its main thesis.
1949 July and August, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, inRailway Magazine, page257: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 beenexcised, was another timing that left drivers completely nonplussed at times as to how to fill it out.
1987,Ann Rule,Small Sacrifices, page442:
2003, Parliament of the United Kingdom, “Section 1(1)”, inFemale Genital Mutilation Act 2003[1],→ISBN, page14:
excise
- inflection ofexciser:
- first/third-personsingularpresentindicative/subjunctive
- second-personsingularimperative
excīse
- vocativemasculinesingular ofexcīsus
