excise
noun
[ ˈɛksʌɪz ]
• a tax levied on certain goods and commodities produced or sold within a country and on licences granted for certain activities.
• "the rate of excise duty on spirits"
excise
verb
• charge excise on (goods).
Origin:
late 15th century (in the general sense ‘a tax or toll’): from Middle Dutch excijs, accijs, perhaps based on Latin accensare ‘to tax’, from ad- ‘to’ + census ‘tax’ (see census).
excise
verb
• cut out surgically.
• "the precision with which surgeons can excise brain tumours"
Similar:
cut out,
cut off,
cut away,
snip out,
take out,
extract,
remove,
eradicate,
extirpate,
resect,
Origin:
late 16th century (in the sense ‘notch or hollow out’): from Latin excis- ‘cut out’, from the verb excidere, from ex- ‘out of’ + caedere ‘to cut’.
