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excised Definition


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excise1
noun
    1. The tax or duty payable on goods, etc produced and sold within a country, and on certain trading licences.
      Example: excise duty
verb excised, excising
    1. To charge excise on (goods, etc).
    2. To force someone to pay excise.
Derivative: excisable
adj
    Liable to excise duty.
Etymology: 15c as excys: from Dutch excijs, from French acceis tax.





excise2
verb excised, excising
    1. To remove (eg a passage from a text).
      Thesaurus: cut, extract, remove, expunge, eradicate, delete, rescind.
    2. To cut out something, or cut off something by surgery.
Derivative: excision
noun
    Etymology: 16c: from Latin excidere, excisum to cut out.



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