Word Meanings - EXCISEMAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An officer who inspects and rates articles liable to excise duty. Macaulay.

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• EXCISEMAN
  An officer who inspects and rates articles liable to excise duty. Macaulay.
• OFFICER
  Specifically, a commissioned officer, in distinction from a warrant officer. Field officer, General officer, etc. See under Field, General. etc. -- Officer of the day , the officer who, on a given day, has charge for that day of the quard,
• EXCISE
  to cut out or off; ex out, off + caedere to cut; or, as the word was formerly written accise, fr. F. accise, LL. accisia, as if fr. L. accidere, accisum, to cut into; ad + caedere to cut; but prob. transformed fr. OF. assise, LL. assisa, assisia,
• LIABLE
  1. Bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; answerable; as, the surety is liable for the debt of his principal. 2. Exposed to a certain contingency or casualty, more or less probable; -- with to and an infinitive or noun; as, liable to slip;
• LIABLENESS
  Quality of being liable; liability.
• UNAPPLIABLE
  Inapplicable. Milton.
• DISPARATES
  Things so unequal or unlike that they can not be compared with each other.
• PLIABLE
  1. Capable of being plied, turned, or bent; easy to be bent; flexible; pliant; supple; limber; yielding; as, willow is a pliable plant. 2. Flexible in disposition; readily yielding to influence, arguments, persuasion, or discipline; easy to be
• COMPLIABLE
  Capable of bending or yielding; apt to yield; compliant. Another compliable mind. Milton. The Jews . . . had made their religion compliable, and accemodated to their passions. Jortin.
• CONCILIABLE
  A small or private assembly, especially of an ecclesiastical nature. Bacon.
• RELIABLE
  Suitable or fit to be relied on; worthy of dependance or reliance; trustworthy. "A reliable witness to the truth of the miracles." A. Norton. The best means, and most reliable pledge, of a higher object. Coleridge. According to General Livingston's
• SUBOFFICER
  An under or subordinate officer.
• CURATESHIP
  A curacy.
• UNDEROFFICER
  A subordinate officer.
• APPLIABLE
  Applicable; also, compliant. Howell.
• MULTIPLIABLE
  Capable of being multiplied. -- Mul"ti*pli`a*ble*ness, n.
• IMPLIABLE
  Not pliable; inflexible; inyielding.
• INCOMPLIABLE
  Not compliable; not conformable.
• ALLIABLE
  Able to enter into alliance.
• UNRELIABLE
  Not reliable; untrustworthy. See Reliable. -- Un`re*li"a*ble*ness, n. Alcibiades . . . was too unsteady, and (according to Mr. Coleridge's coinage) "unreliable;" or perhaps, in more correct English, too "unrelyuponable." De Quincey.