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/ɛksˈaɪs/ /ˈɛksaɪz/ Listen

noun

Excise n.

In inland duty or impost operating as an indirect tax on the consumer, levied upon certain specified articles, as, tobacco, ale, spirits, etc., grown or manufactured in the country. It is also levied to pursue certain trades and deal in certain commodities. Certain direct taxes (as, in England, those on carriages, servants, plate, armorial bearings, etc.), are included in the excise. Often used adjectively; as, excise duties; excise law; excise system. "The English excise system corresponds to the internal revenue system in the United States." "An excise... is a fixed, absolute, and direct charge laid on merchandise, products, or commodities."

That department or bureau of the public service charged with the collection of the excise taxes. (Eng.)

verb

Excise v. t. (past & past part. excised; pres. part. excising)

To lay or impose an excise upon.

To impose upon; to overcharge. (Prov. Eng.)

Excise v. t. To cut out or off; to separate and remove; as, to excise a tumor.

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"Excise" Quotes from Famous Books

... conceive what he was afraid of. At length, with fear and trembling, he pronounced those terrible words, Commissioners and Cellar-rats. He gave me to understand that he concealed his wine because of the excise, and his bread on account of the tax, and that he was a lost man if they got the slightest inkling that he was not dying of hunger. Every thing he said to me touching this matter, whereof, indeed, I had not the slightest idea, produced an impression on me that can never be effaced. It became ...

— Classic French Course in English • William Cleaver Wilkinson

... triumphant step, is conducting a courtier in full dress (no doubt meant for Walpole), by a rope round his neck, into the open jaws of a monster, which represent the entrance to the place of punishment. Out of the devil's mouth issues a label with the words, "Make room for Sir Robert." Underneath, "No Excise." ...

— Notes and Queries, Number 194, July 16, 1853 • Various

... little man, who made no boast of his vocation, but who, from the flourish and snap of his fingers, I believe to have been the barber, strongly espoused the cause of high church and the Stuart line. The excise-man, as in duty bound, and the attorney, who looked to some petty office under the Crown, together with my fellow-traveller, who seemed to enter keenly into the contest, staunchly supported the cause of King George and ...

— Rob Roy, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott

... this," he said, "where a meddlesome tipstaff will not let a true-blooded Englishman pay toll to his Majesty's excise. But old Sour-chops is gone, and we will have 'tother bottle now to drink better manners to him; so bear a hand, Nettle, Thistle, or whatever ...

— The Knight of the Golden Melice - A Historical Romance • John Turvill Adams

... shoot, that I perceived a fellow in a yellow waterproof popping up his head from time to time (at no little risk to his life) over a dyke some way behind the line of guns. As soon as the beaters came out he advanced and introduced himself as an Excise Officer, asking "if this would be a convenient moment to examine the game licences of ...

— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 146., January 14, 1914 • Various

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