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▪ I. † enˈcharge, n. Obs.
[a. OF. encharge, f. encharger: see next.]
An injunction.
1595Copley Wits (Nares), His trumpetter..refus'd this encharge and push'd the nobleman himselfe forward.
▪ II. encharge, v.|ɛnˈtʃɑːdʒ|
Also in-.
[a. OF. encharger, f. en- (see en-1) + charge charge n.]
†1. trans. To impose as a charge or duty; to command, enjoin (an action); to give (a thing) in charge. Const. to, or dat. of the person. Obs.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. v. vi. 178 Grete necessite of prowesse and vertue is encharged and comaunded to ȝow yif ȝe nil nat dissimulen. 1598Barret Theor. Warres ii. i. 17 So shall he accomplish what is encharged and commanded him. Ibid. 20 The Ensigne..the Captaine..deliuereth..vnto his Ensigne-bearer, encharging him the custodie and defence thereof. 1656Sir J. Finett For. Ambass. 54 It was beforehand incharged to me to put them from that hope. 1828Lamb Lett. in C. & Mrs. C. Clarke Recoll. Writers (1878) 160 Mrs. Hazlitt to whom I encharged it.
†2. To enjoin or commission (a person) to do something. Obs.
c1535G. Du Wes Introd. Fr. in Palsgr. 897 The whiche hath me commanded and encharged to reduce and to put by writtyng the maner. 1598R. Grenewey Tacitus' Ann. i. xiv. (1622) 26 He encharged the Germanes to breake in. 1670G. H. Hist. Cardinals ii. i. 130, I have encharged Monsignor Burlemont..to wait upon you. 1681P. Rycaut Critick 199 It had [been] better he had encharged us not to suffer, etc.
3. To burden, entrust, commission with.
1640Bp. Hall Episc. iii. i. 220 Encharging them with the flocke over which Christ hath made them Bishops. 1671True Non-conf. 161 It is a..necessary thing, that the more..gifted, be peculiarly incharged with the inspection of the Clergie. 1750Beawes Lex Mercat. (1752) 6 The magistracy it encharged with their execution. 1868R. H. Quick Ess. Educ. Ref. iv. 68 A man..who found himself encharged with the bringing up of a young nobleman. |