"EXCI'SE. n.s. [accijs, Dutch; excisum, Latin.] 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."~ from Samuel Johnson's 1755 Dictionary of the English Language
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