These are the meanings of the letters EXCUSIVE when you unscramble them.
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Excise (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.
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Excise (n.)
That department or bureau of the public service charged with the collection of the excise taxes.
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Excise (v. t.)
To cut out or off; to separate and remove; as, to excise a tumor.
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Excise (v. t.)
To impose upon; to overcharge.
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Excise (v. t.)
To lay or impose an excise upon.
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Excuse (v. t.)
That which excuses; that which extenuates or justifies a fault.
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Excuse (v. t.)
That which is offered as a reason for being excused; a plea offered in extenuation of a fault or irregular deportment; apology; as, an excuse for neglect of duty; excuses for delay of payment.
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Excuse (v. t.)
The act of excusing, apologizing, exculpating, pardoning, releasing, and the like; acquittal; release; absolution; justification; extenuation.
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Excuse (v. t.)
To free from accusation, or the imputation of fault or blame; to clear from guilt; to release from a charge; to justify by extenuating a fault; to exculpate; to absolve; to acquit.
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Excuse (v. t.)
To free from an impending obligation or duty; hence, to disengage; to dispense with; to release by favor; also, to remit by favor; not to exact; as, to excuse a forfeiture.
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Excuse (v. t.)
To pardon, as a fault; to forgive entirely, or to admit to be little censurable, and to overlook; as, we excuse irregular conduct, when extraordinary circumstances appear to justify it.
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Excuse (v. t.)
To regard with indulgence; to view leniently or to overlook; to pardon.
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Excuse (v. t.)
To relieve of an imputation by apology or defense; to make apology for as not seriously evil; to ask pardon or indulgence for.