mass noun［usu. as modifier］
- a tax levied on certain goods and commodities produced or sold within a country and on licences granted for certain activities消费税, （国内）货物税：
the rate of excise duty on spirits.
酒税税率。
词源
late 15th cent. （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）.
with obj.
1- cut out surgically（手术）切除; 割去：
the precision with which surgeons can excise brain tumours
外科医生切除脑瘤能够达到的精确度
as adj. excised excised tissue.切除的组织。
1.1
- remove (a section) from a text or piece of music（从文本、乐曲中）删去（某一部分）：
the clauses were excised from the treaty.
那些条款从该条约中删除了。
派生词
excision
noun词源
late 16th cent. （in the sense 'notch or hollow out'）： from Latin excis- 'cut out', from the verb excidere, from ex- 'out of'+caedere 'to cut'.