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English

Etymology

From Middle French excision, from Latin exc?si?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?s???n/
• Rhymes: -???n

Noun

excision (countable and uncountable, plural excisions)

1. The deletion of some text during editing.
2. (surgery) The removal of a tumor, etc., by cutting.
3. (genetics) The removal of a gene from a section of genetic material.
4. (topology) The fact that, under certain hypotheses, the homology of a space relative to a subspace is unchanged by the identification of a subspace of the latter to a point.

Translations

French

Etymology

From Middle French excision, from Latin exc?si?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k.si.zj??/

Noun

excision f (plural excisions)

1. excision

Further reading

• “excision” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin exc?si?.

Noun

excision f (plural excisions)

1. excision; removal by cutting
   • 1549, Jean Tagault, Les institutions chirurgiques

     Quand le patient refuse ayde et remedes necessaires a la curation de la maladie, laquelle de soy est incurable, comme excision d'ung chancre qui occupe quelque membre.

Descendants

• English: excision
• French: excision

English

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch excijs, altered under the influence of Latin excisus (“cut out, removed”), from earlier accijs (“tax”), from Old French acceis (“tax, assessment”) (whence modern French accise), from Vulgar Latin *accensum, ultimately from Latin ad + census (“tax, census”).

Alternative forms

• excize (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /??k?sa?z/
• Rhymes: -a?z

Noun

excise (countable and uncountable, plural excises)

1. A tax charged on goods produced within the country (as opposed to customs duties, charged on goods from outside the country).
   • 1668 July 3rd, James Dalrymple, “Thomas Rue contra Andrew Hou?toun” in The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 547

     Andrew Hou?toun and Adam Mu?het, being Tack?men of the Excize, did Imploy Thomas Rue to be their Collector, and gave him a Sallary of 30. pound Sterling for a year.

   • 1755, Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language, "excise",

     A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom Excise is paid.

   • 1787, Constitution of the United States of America, Article I, Section 8,

     The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, to pay the debts […] of the United States;

Synonyms

• excise tax

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

excise (third-person singular simple present excises, present participle excising, simple past and past participle excised)

1. To impose an excise tax on something.

Etymology 2

From French exciser, from Latin excisus, past participle of exc?d? (“cut out”), from ex (“out of, from”) + caed? (“cut”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??k?sa?z/, /?k?sa?z/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k?sa?z/

Verb

excise (third-person singular simple present excises, present participle excising, simple past and past participle excised)

1. To cut out; to remove.
   • 1901, Andrew Lang, Preface to the second edition of Myth, Ritual, and Religion,

     In revising the book I […] have excised certain passages which, as the book first appeared, were inconsistent with its main thesis.

   • 1987, Ann Rule, page 442 of Small Sacrifices,

     Insanity can be cured. Personality disorders are so inextricably entwined with the heart and mind and soul that it is well-nigh impossible to excise them.

Related terms

• excision

Translations

French

Verb

excise

1. first-person singular present indicative of exciser
2. third-person singular present indicative of exciser
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of exciser
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of exciser
5. second-person singular imperative of exciser

Latin

Participle

exc?se

1. vocative masculine singular of exc?sus