Lexic.us

Definition of Excise

1. Verb. Remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line. "Scratch that remark"

2. Noun. A tax that is measured by the amount of business done (not on property or income from real estate).

3. Verb. Levy an excise tax on.

4. Verb. Remove by cutting. "The surgeon excised the tumor"

Definition of Excise

1. 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.

2. v. t. To lay or impose an excise upon.

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

Definition of Excise

1. Noun. A tax charged on goods produced within the country (as opposed to customs duties, charged on goods from outside the country). ¹

2. Verb. To impose an excise tax on something. ¹

3. Verb. To cut out; to remove. ¹

4. Verb. (rare) To perform certain types of female circumcision. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Excise

1. to remove by cutting out [v -CISED, -CISING, -CISES]

Medical Definition of Excise

1. To cut out. See: resect. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Excise

excides exciding excimer excimers excipient excipients exciple exciples exciplex exciplexes

excipulum excircle excircles excisability excisable excise (current term) excise-tax excise tax excised excises

excising excision excision biopsy excision repair excisional excisional biopsy excisionase excisions

Literary usage of Excise

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1911)
"INTERNAL REVENTE (S 2*)—excise ON CORPORATIONS—MEASURE OF TAX. 8. ... The excise measured by net annual income, imposed by the act of August 5, 1909, 8 38, ..."

2. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1909)
"Jenkins' Ear frenzy, the Porteous riots — all these are, to some extent, more intelligible than the tempest which raged over the excise. ..."

3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1911)
"Internal revenue — excise on corporations — doing business — taximeter company. 12. A corporation owning and leasing taxicabs and collecting rents therefrom ..."

4. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"(ER) excise, a term of obvious Latin derivation, now well known in public finance ... Yet excise duties can boast a respectable antiquity, having a distinct ..."

5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"The ample revenue of the excise, though peculiarly appropriated to those uses, was found inadequate To supply the deficiency, the emperor suggested a new ..."

6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"excise, a term of obvious Latin derivation, now well- known in public finance, ... Yet excise duties can boast a respectable antiquity, having a distinct ..."

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