Except and Excise

verb

• Take exception to.
  • usage: "he demurred at my suggestion to work on Saturday"
  • synonyms: demur
• Prevent from being included or considered or accepted.
  • usage: "The bad results were excluded from the report"; "Leave off the top piece"
  • synonyms: exclude, leave out, leave off, omit, take out

• (v.t.) To object to; to protest against.
• (prep.) With exclusion of; leaving or left out; excepting.
• (v.i.) To take exception; to object; -- usually followed by to, sometimes by against; as, to except to a witness or his testimony.
• (v.t.) To take or leave out (anything) from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit.
• (conj.) Unless; if it be not so that.

noun

• A tax that is measured by the amount of business done (not on property or income from real estate.
  • synonyms: excise tax

verb

• Remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line.
  • usage: "Please strike this remark from the record"; "scratch that remark"
  • synonyms: strike, scratch, expunge
• Levy an excise tax on.
• Remove by cutting.
  • usage: "The surgeon excised the tumor"

• (v.t.) To cut out or off; to separate and remove; as, to excise a tumor.
• (n.) That department or bureau of the public service charged with the collection of the excise taxes.
• (n.) In inland duty or impost operating as an indirect tax on the consumer, levied upon certain specified articles, as, tobacco, ale, spirits, etc., grown or manufactured in the country. It is also levied to pursue certain trades and deal in certain commodities. Certain direct taxes (as, in England, those on carriages, servants, plate, armorial bearings, etc.), are included in the excise. Often used adjectively; as, excise duties; excise law; excise system.
• (v.t.) To lay or impose an excise upon.
• (v.t.) To impose upon; to overcharge.