dischargementn.

?1569 H. Gough tr. B. Georgijević Ofspring House of Ottomanno sig. J.i If their parentes be not able to disc[h]arge it [sc. a tax], they are constrained to sell their children into bondage. Some other linked in cheines do wander doore by dore to begge money for dischargement therof.

1615 T. Tuke Christians Looking Glasse 90 The loue of the man for his Office, or for his carefull execution of it, is Diuine, And to contemne, or persecute, him, for his very place and power, or the faithfull dischargement of it, is diuelish.

1634 W. Wood New Englands Prospect ii. xiii. 84 These Forts some be fortie or fiftie foote square, erected of young timber trees..rammed into the ground..the earth being cast up for their shelter against the dischargements of their enemies.

1661 W. Howell Inst. Gen. Hist. iii. ix. 657 They plundered the goods of the Carthaginians, with all the money he had brought for the dischargement of the Army.

1673 Rec. Dingwall in W. Mackay Rec. Presbyteries Inverness & Dingwall (1896) 331 His dischargement from being kirk officer declared.

1854 Ann. Sci. Discov. 147 Its mass taking a great deal of time to fill with heat, is also very slow in dischargement.

1893 Trans. Amer. Soc. Civil Engineers 30 254 The taxes levied on dischargements paid by the ton are as follows.

1911 Dietetic & Hygienic Gaz. June 343/2 A duty, the proper dischargement of which involves a heavy responsibility.

1947 Ludington (Mich.) Daily News 24 Feb. 3/7 The time one year after discharge [from the armed forces] has expired with the early dischargements prior to April 1, 1946.

1977 J. Higginbotham Old Mobile iii. 52 Levasseur had good reason to feel..a glow of satisfaction in the dischargement of his own responsibilities.

2012 Irish Examiner (Nexis) 24 Jan. Bankruptcy would still go through the courts, but the term of dischargement would be cut from 12 to three years.