Word of the Day: EXCISE
To edit or expunge
excise (verb) - to remove surgically; to delete or cut out; to impose an excise [ek-sahyz]
BREAKDOWN: EX- (out) + CIS- (to cut)
excise on a noun refers to a government tax or duty on certain commodities produced or sold within a country
excision is the act, process, or result of a complete removal of something, usually tissue
See also: rescind
“Education is not the taming or domestication of the soul’s raw passions - not suppressing them or excising them, which would deprive the soul of its energy - but forming and informing them as art.” —Allan Bloom
