excise Definition

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.

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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.