excise

Alternative forms

• excize (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈɛkˌsaɪz/

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• Rhymes: -aɪz

Noun

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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;

Verb

excise (third-person singular simple present excises, present participle excising, simple past and past participle excised)

1. To impose an excise tax on something.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US):

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• Audio (General Australian):

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Verb

excise (third-person singular simple present excises, present participle excising, simple past and past participle excised)

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.

   • 1949 July and August, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 257:

     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 been excised, was another timing that left drivers completely nonplussed at times as to how to fill it out.

   • 1987, Ann Rule, Small Sacrifices, page 442:

     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.

   • 2003, Parliament of the United Kingdom, “Section 1(1)”, in Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003‎, →ISBN, page 14:

     A person is guilty of an offence if he excises, infibulates or otherwise mutilates the whole or any part of a girl’s labia majora, labia minora or clitoris.