[UN-1 8, 9.]
1. Not subjected to an Excise or tax.
c. 1740. I. H. Browne, Pipe of Tobacco, V. 20. Come to thy poet And let me taste thee unexcisd by kings.
1861. Sat. Rev., 23 Nov., 532. So all the benefits of a free press, unstamped, unexcised, may be altogether thrown away.
2. Not appointed to a post in the Excise.
1820. Byron, Juan, III. xciii. All are not moralists, like Southey, Or Wordsworth unexcised, unhired.