Excise [noun]

Gideon is not a fireman, that has been tragically excised from the mythology.

If you had only cut that above sentence in half, excising “or that he did not want to do with his wife,” you might have had something.

This week that meant that we excised a chunk of the show to a forthcoming Saturday episode that is focused on e-commerce.

The revenue is derived from direct taxes on land and provisions, excise upon exports and imports, and harbour dues.

Duncombe indeed had his own reasons for hating Montague, who had turned him out of the place of Cashier of the Excise.

He had been ordered by the Commissioners of the Excise to pay ten thousand pounds into the Exchequer for the public service.

He therefore selected his brother Christopher, whom he had lately made a Commissioner of the Excise, to keep the place for him.

So home, where I found Mrs. Hunt in great trouble about her husband's losing of his place in the Excise.

We shall propose that the duty of collecting the returns shall devolve on the excise.

These were all the alterations he proposed in the customs; and the right honourable baronet next proceeded to the excise-duties.