Levy vs Excise - What's the difference?
levy | excise | Synonyms |
To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property
To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority.
* Shakespeare
To draft someone into military service
To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrolment, conscription. etc.
* Fuller
To wage war
To raise, as a siege.
(legal) To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up.
The act of levying.
* Thirlwall
The tax, property or people so levied.
* Macaulay
(US, obsolete, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia) The Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar, valued at elevenpence when the dollar was rated at seven shillings and sixpence.
A tax charged on goods produced within the country (as opposed to customs duties, charged on goods from outside the country).
* 1668 July 3rd, , “Thomas Rue contra'' Andrew Hou?toun” in ''The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683),
* 1755, , A Dictionary of the English Language , "excise",
* 1787, ,
To impose an excise tax on something.
To cut out; to remove.
* 1846 , William Youatt, The Dog ,
* 1901, , Preface to the second edition of Myth, Ritual, and Religion ,
* 1987 , , page 442 of Small Sacrifices ,
(rare) To perform certain types of female circumcision.
Levy is a synonym of excise.
As a proper noun levy
is : levy.As a verb excise is
.levy
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) leve'', from (etyl) ''levee'', from ''lever "to raise".Verb
(en-verb)- to levy a tax
- If they do this my ransom, then, / Will soon be levied .
- Augustine inflamed Ethelbert, king of Kent, to levy his power, and to war against them.
- (Holland)
- to levy a mill, dike, ditch, a nuisance, etc.
- (Cowell)
Noun
(levies)- A levy of all the men left under sixty.
- The Irish levies .
Etymology 2
Contraction of elevenpence.Noun
(levies)See also
* levee * Levi ----excise
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) excijs, altered under the influence of Latin .Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(wikipedia excise) (en noun)page 547
- Andrew Hou?toun'' and ''Adam Mu?het'', being Tack?men of the Excize , did Imploy ''Thomas Rue'' to be their Collector, and gave him a Sallary of 30. pound ''Sterling for a year.
- 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.
- The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises , to pay the debts of the United States;
Synonyms
* excise taxDerived terms
* central excise * excise house * exciseman * unexcisedVerb
(en-verb)Etymology 2
From (etyl) exciser, from (etyl) excisus, past participle of .Verb
(en-verb)- [T]hey [warts] may be lifted up with the forceps, and excised with a knife or scissors, and the wound touched with nitrate of silver.
- In revising the book I have excised certain passages which, as the book first appeared, were inconsistent with its main thesis.
- Insanity]] can be cured. Personality disorders are so [[inextricable, inextricably entwined with the heart and mind and soul that it is well-nigh impossible to excise them.