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excise 1. a tax on goods, such as spirits, produced for the home market 2. a tax paid for a licence to carry out various trades, sports, etc. 3. Brit that section of the government service responsible for the collection of excise, now the Board of Customs and Excise How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The genius of the people will ill brook the inquisitive and peremptory spirit of excise laws. To be sure, every man values his livelihood first; that must be granted; and I warrant, if you would confess the truth, you are more afraid of losing your place than anything else; but never fear, friend, there will be an excise under another government as well as under this. He had scarcely been a week at Leghorn before the hold of his vessel was filled with printed muslins, contraband cottons, English powder, and tobacco on which the excise had forgotten to put its mark. |
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