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Nevertheless, “Swann in Love” isn’t quite as excisable as it might seem.

From Washington Post • Nov. 3, 2022

The work of reducing the list of excisable articles was nevertheless begun, and from this time it went slowly, and, except as interrupted by extraordinary demands upon the state, steadily forward.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 by Various

His statement is very explicit: "To punish the Government they agreed to dissolve the 'Poker,' and to form another society which should exist without consumption of any excisable commodity."

From Life of Adam Smith by Rae, John

DRAWBACK, in commerce, the paying back of a duty previously paid upon the exportation of excisable articles or upon the re-exportation of foreign goods.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" by Various

At the former of those periods the lower classes of the people were able to consume excisable commodities; in the latter they lived for the most part on the immediate produce of the soil.

From The Commercial Restraints of Ireland by Hutchinson, John Hely