excise

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a tax on goods produced, sold, or used within a country

   The government raised the excise on tobacco.

2. 2
   verb

   to remove something by cutting it out

   The surgeon excised the damaged tissue.

3. 3
   verb

   to remove words or material from a text

   The editor excised the repeated paragraph.

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Simplified etymology

The verb excise meaning “cut out,” recorded from the late 16th century, ultimately derives from Latin caedere, “to cut.”

The tax noun comes through Dutch and French forms meaning an assessment. The verb "cut out" is associated with Latin excidere, "to cut out," which shaped the spelling and modern surgical/editorial sense.

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