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Filled answer is this word (EXCISE).
Definitions
To remove by cutting out, especially from text or tissue.
Word origin
From Middle Dutch excijs, altered under the influence of Latin excisus (“cut out, removed”), from earlier accijs (“tax”), from Old French acceis (“tax, assessment”) (whence modern French accise), from Vulgar Latin *accensum, ultimately from Latin ad + census (“tax, census”).
Used in a sentence
“Andrew Houſtoun and Adam Muſhet, being Tackſmen of the Excize, did Imploy Thomas Rue to be their Collector, and gave him a Sallary of 30. pound Sterling for a year.”
“1755, Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language, "excise", 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.”
“1787, Constitution of the United States of America, Article I, Section 8, The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, to pay the debts […] of the United States;”
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