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chartered, ppl. a.|ˈtʃɑːtəd|
[f. charter v.]
1. a. Founded, privileged, or protected by charter.
c1425Wyntoun Cron. vii. vi. 113 Þai gert þe Chanownis be Chartryd. 1780Cowper Table-t. 259 Britain's chartered land. 1800Colquhoun Comm. Thames viii. 257 The Governors..of the different Chartered Companies. 1840Marryat Poor Jack xxxi, There was a foundation or chartered school. 1876Green Short Hist. v. §4 (1882) 239 The fugitive bondsmen found freedom in a flight to chartered towns.
b. chartered accountant: an accountant who is qualified according to the rules of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, which received a royal charter in 1880, or of the similar chartered bodies in Scotland or Ireland.
1855Index Juridicus: Scottish Law List 612 The Members of the Society of Accountants [in Edinburgh] have adopted the distinctive abbreviate letter of ‘C A’, Chartered Accountant. 1880Accountant 8 May 5/2 The Members of this Society..are now enrolled as Chartered Accountants. 1955Times 10 May 7/3 He said that chartered accountants had been employed for a long time as umpires in various matters.
2. fig. Privileged; licensed.
1599Shakes. Hen. V, i. i. 48 When he speakes, The Ayre, a Charter'd Libertine, is still. 1783–94Blake Songs Exper., London 3 Near where the charter'd Thames does flow. 1862Merivale Rom. Emp. (1865) VI. liv. 472 A certain sense of decorum..still preserved its sway over the chartered libertines of Rome. 1871Morley Voltaire (1886) 25 The sworn and chartered foes of light.
3. a. Of a ship or aircraft: hired under a charter-party.
1809R. Langford Introd. Trade 130 Chartered, hired for a voyage. 1866Harvard Mem. Biog. I. 420 The gunboats in the river; the chartered transports..lying at the levee. 1929Lancet 12 Jan. 105/2 We have carried several invalids..either on scheduled services or by specially chartered aircraft. 1958New Statesman 5 Apr. 427/3 They come..on chartered planes which take them around to see the most famous sights.
b. fig. Freighted, charged.
1823T. Roscoe Sismondi's Lit. S. Europe (Bohn) I. 375 The moment chartered with Clorinda's doom. |