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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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... placed at less than 1,200,000. Towards this, the existing sources of revenue, with the deduction of the Feudal dues and wardships, which it was proposed to abolish, would not contribute more than one-half, or 600,000. The remaining half was to be supplied from Excise—a new device, as we have seen, contrived by Parliament during the Civil War, and destined, as Hyde foresaw, to become a permanency. But, as a fact, the assigned resources did not reach this amount of 1,200,000. Further, it had to be taken into account that, ...

— The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon V2 • Henry Craik

... security and safety of the lives and property of the Canadian subjects of Her Majesty resident in that country who are engaged in legitimate business pursuits, it was evident that the revenue justly due to the Government of Canada, under its customs, excise and land laws, and which would go a long way to pay the expenses of government, was being lost for the want of adequate machinery ...

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... relating to trade, customs, and the excise, shall be the same in Scotland as in England. But all the other laws of Scotland shall remain in force; but alterable by the parliament of Great Britain. Yet with this caution; that laws relating to public policy are alterable at the discretion of the parliament; laws relating to private ...

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... trembling more than ever, for he had bought it of the smugglers, and he thought his questioner might be in the excise department of the goblins. ...

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