1. a tax levied on certain goods and commodities produced or sold within a country and on licenses granted for certain activities:"excise taxes on cigarettes"
verb
1. charge excise on (goods).
Word Originlate 15th century (in the general sense ‘a tax or toll’): from Middle Dutch excijs, accijs, perhaps based on Latin accensare ‘to tax’, from ad- ‘to’ + census ‘tax’ (see census).
