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discharged, ppl. a.|dɪsˈtʃɑːdʒd|
[f. as prec. + -ed1.]
Freed from a charge, load, obligation, etc.; exonerated, released, dismissed, emitted, etc.
Discharged Living, (in Ch. of Engl.) a benefice that is exempt from the payment of First-fruits, its value having been returned in the Liber Regis of K. Henry VIII as less than {pstlg}10. Cf. discharge v. 2, quot. 1786.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xii. Introd. (Tollem. MS.), Fowles of praye, þat ben dischargid of weyȝte of flesche, and fleþ most hyȝe. 1483Cath. Angl. 100 Discharged, exoneratus. 1631May tr. Barclay's Mirr. Mindes ii. 36 Of such men..the labour..is precious, as filling their discharged mindes with a new strength. 1719De Foe Crusoe (1840) I. xvi. 280 Laying down the discharged pieces. 1758M.P.'s Let. on R. Navy 35 Dead and discharged Tickets..are paid at the Navy-Office, without being chequed. 1786J. Bacon Liber Regis 1253 Livings discharged. 1836[see discharge n. 9]. 1849R. Garnett in Proc. Philol. Soc. IV. 179 In the same degree that a magnetized steel bar differs from an ordinary one, or a charged Leyden jar from a discharged one. 1859Autobiog. Beggar Boy 3 My mother's marriage with a discharged soldier. 1891Kelly's P.O. Direct. Bucks 364/2 Datchet, the living is a discharged vicarage, net yearly value {pstlg}306. |