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chargeable, a.|ˈtʃɑːdʒəb(ə)l|
[f. charge v. + -able.]
†I. Of the nature of a charge or burden. Obs.
†1. Burdensome, troublesome. Obs.
1509Barclay Ship of Fooles (1570) 37 Labours diuers to chargeable of warke. a1634Randolph Ode A. Stafford 4 Leave the chargeable noise of this great Towne.
†2. Weighty, grave; important. Obs.
1494Fabyan vi. clxv. 160 Charlys was at that tyme lettyd with chargeable busynesse. 1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1684) II. 352 The judges shall in full chargeable and lamentable wise, charge the parties..to make true relation. 1614Raleigh Hist. World II. v. vi. §2. 619 His chargeable and remarkable seruice.
†3. Involving responsibility; responsible. Obs.
1532Frith Mirror (1829) 269 A chargeable office is committed unto thee. 1549Latimer Serm. bef. Edw. VI, iv. (Arb.) 105 Supremacy [of the church]..wylbe a chargeable dygnitye whan accompte shal be asked of it.
†4. Burdensome (as a tax or payment); costly, expensive. Obs. (Formerly the most frequent meaning.)
1480Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxxxiv. 255 Grete taxes, costages and raunsonnes—whiche charges were importable and to chargeable. 1535Coverdale 2 Sam. xiii. 25 Let vs not all go, lest we be to chargeable vnto the. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 234 Costly and chargeable apparell. 1618–29in Rushw. Hist. Coll. (1659) I. App. 15 The Innes and Victualling-houses in England are more chargeble to the Travellers, then in other Countreys. 1660Trial Regic. (1679) 186 That [royalty] was a dangerous, chargeable, and useless Office. 1706Estcourt Fair Examp. ii. i. 20 Oxford is a chargeable Place, Sir, there is no living there without it [money]. 1796Burke Regic. Peace iii. Wks. VIII. 417 They..furnish them with every chargeable decoration.
II. Capable of being, or liable to be, charged: in various senses and constructions of the verb.
†5. Liable to be called to account, answerable, responsible. Obs. or arch.
1546in Eng. Gilds (1870) 199 Y⊇ ministers of the Guyld be not chardgeable towardes the cure. 1613Sir F. Cottington in Ellis Orig. Lett. i. 267 III. 109 None to speake with them but theyr chargable keepers. 1765Blackstone Comm. I. 431 A master is..chargeable if any of his family casteth any thing out of his house into the street..to the damage of any individual. 1845Stephen Laws Eng. II. 56 Writing signed by the party chargeable.
6. Liable to be charged with (a fault, etc.).
1662Stillingfl. Orig. Sacr. iii. i. §7 Another thing which is chargeable with the very same difficulty in a higher degree. 1751Johnson Rambl. No. 172 ⁋11 Chargeable with all the guilt and folly of their own actions. 1870Bowen Logic xiii. 424 The faults with which it is chargeable.
7. Subject to a charge, tax, or payment.
1614Selden Titles Hon. 268 If he then had a Thane..that to the King's tax..had fiue Hydes of land chargeable. 1641Sir T. Trevor in Rushw. Hist. Coll. iii. (1692) I. 341 That he the said John Hampden..was Chargeable with the Money then in question. 1775Johnson Tax. no Tyr. 29 Chargeable by English taxation. 1817Ld. Lascelles in Parl. Deb. 782 A bill to make lead mines chargeable to the Poor Rates. 1845McCulloch Taxation ii. v. (1852) 236 The various duties with which it had..been chargeable.
8. Liable to be made a charge or expense (to the parish, etc.).
1646Bury Wills (1850) 189 Widowes..not to be such as are or haue bene a charge or chargeable to the said parish of Hartest. 1711Addison Spect. No. 117 ⁋9 When an old Woman begins to..grow chargeable to a Parish, she is generally turned into a Witch. 1885Law Rep. 14 Queen's B. Div. 359 Relief and employment of the chargeable poor.
9. Capable of being charged as a liability, obligation, debt, fault, offence, upon, on a person, etc.
1654Gataker Disc. Apol. 47 The repair of the Bodie of the Church were no way chargable upon the Rector. 1796Bp. Watson Apol. Bible 271 The blunder is not chargeable upon Matthew. 1818Cruise Digest I. 510 Such debts as are chargeable on the inheritance. 1863W. Phillips Speeches vi. 104 The same faults are chargeable on the leaders of all the popular movements in England.
10. Proper to be charged to an account.
1844H. H. Wilson Brit. India III. iii. ix. 497 The balance..unless this were also chargeable to territory. 1884Sir C. Bowen in Law Rep., 13 Queen's B. Div. 85 The question whether extraordinary expenditure after the entry..is rightly chargeable to general average. |