Emily Dickinson Lexicon

EX-CISE', n. [s as z. L. excisum, cut off, from excido; D. accys; G. accise.]

An inland duty or impost, laid on commodities consumed, or on the retail, which is the last stage before consumption; as, an excise on coffee, soap, candles, which a person consumes in his family. But many articles are excised at the manufactories, as spirit at the distillery, printed silks and linens at the printer's, &c. Encyc.