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Charge (ch&ä;rj), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Charged (ch&ä;rjd); p. pr. & vb. n. Charging.] [OF. chargier, F. charger, fr. LL. carricare, fr. L. carrus wagon. Cf. Cargo, Caricature, Cark, and see Car.] 1. To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.
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A carte that charged was with hay. Chaucer.
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The charging of children's memories with rules. Locke.
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2. To lay on or impose, as a task, duty, or trust; to command, instruct, or exhort with authority; to enjoin; to urge earnestly; as, to charge a jury; to charge the clergy of a diocese; to charge an agent.
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Moses . . . charged you to love the Lord your God. Josh. xxii. 5.
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Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition. Shak.
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3. To lay on, impose, or make subject to or liable for.
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When land shall be charged by any lien. Kent.
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4. To fix or demand as a price; as, he charges two dollars a barrel for apples.
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5. To place something to the account of as a debt; to debit, as, to charge one with goods. Also, to enter upon the debit side of an account; as, to charge a sum to one.
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6. To impute or ascribe; to lay to one's charge.
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No more accuse thy pen, but charge the crime
On native sloth and negligence of time.
Dryden.
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7. To accuse; to make a charge or assertion against (a person or thing); to lay the responsibility (for something said or done) at the door of.
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If he did that wrong you charge him with. Tennyson.
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8. To place within or upon any firearm, piece of apparatus or machinery, the quantity it is intended and fitted to hold or bear; to load; to fill; as, to charge a gun; to charge an electrical machine, etc.
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Their battering cannon charged to the mouths. Shak.
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9. To ornament with or cause to bear; as, to charge an architectural member with a molding.
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10. (Her.) To assume as a bearing; as, he charges three roses or; to add to or represent on; as, he charges his shield with three roses or.
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11. To call to account; to challenge. [Obs.]
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To charge me to an answer. Shak.
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12. To bear down upon; to rush upon; to attack.
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Charged our main battle's front. Shak.

Syn. -- To intrust; command; exhort; instruct; accuse; impeach; arraign. See Accuse.
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Charge (?), v. i. 1. To make an onset or rush; as, to charge with fixed bayonets.
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Like your heroes of antiquity, he charges in iron. Glanvill.
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Charge for the guns!” he said. Tennyson.
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2. To demand a price; as, to charge high for goods.
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3. To debit on an account; as, to charge for purchases.
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4. To squat on its belly and be still; -- a command given by a sportsman to a dog.
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Charge (?), n. [F. charge, fr. charger to load. See Charge, v. t., and cf. Cargo, Caricature.] 1. A load or burder laid upon a person or thing.
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2. A person or thing commited or intrusted to the care, custody, or management of another; a trust.
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&hand_; The people of a parish or church are called the charge of the clergyman who is set over them.
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3. Custody or care of any person, thing, or place; office; responsibility; oversight; obigation; duty.
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'Tis a great charge to come under one body's hand. Shak.
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4. Heed; care; anxiety; trouble. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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5. Harm. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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6. An order; a mandate or command; an injunction.
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The king gave cherge concerning Absalom. 2. Sam. xviii. 5.
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7. An address (esp. an earnest or impressive address) containing instruction or exhortation; as, the charge of a judge to a jury; the charge of a bishop to his clergy.
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8. An accusation of a wrong of offense; allegation; indictment; specification of something alleged.
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The charge of confounding very different classes of phenomena. Whewell.
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9. Whatever constitutes a burden on property, as rents, taxes, lines, etc.; costs; expense incurred; -- usually in the plural.
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10. The price demanded for a thing or service.
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11. An entry or a account of that which is due from one party to another; that which is debited in a business transaction; as, a charge in an account book.
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12. That quantity, as of ammunition, electricity, ore, fuel, etc., which any apparatus, as a gun, battery, furnace, machine, etc., is intended to receive and fitted to hold, or which is actually in it at one time
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13. The act of rushing upon, or towards, an enemy; a sudden onset or attack, as of troops, esp. cavalry; hence, the signal for attack; as, to sound the charge.
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Never, in any other war afore, gave the Romans a hotter charge upon the enemies. Holland.
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The charge of the light brigade. Tennyson.
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14. A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack; as, to bring a weapon to the charge.
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15. (Far.) A sort of plaster or ointment.
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16. (Her.) A bearing. See Bearing, n., 8.
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17. [Cf. Charre.] Thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; -- called also charre.
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18. Weight; import; value.
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Many suchlikeas'sof great charge. Shak.
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Back charge. See under Back, a. -- Bursting charge. (a) (Mil.) The charge which bursts a shell, etc. (b) (Mining) A small quantity of fine powder to secure the ignition of a charge of coarse powder in blasting. -- Charge and discharge (Equity Practice), the old mode or form of taking an account before a master in chancery. -- Charge sheet, the paper on which are entered at a police station all arrests and accusations. -- To sound the charge, to give the signal for an attack.

Syn. -- Care; custody; trust; management; office; expense; cost; price; assault; attack; onset; injunction; command; order; mandate; instruction; accusation; indictment.
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