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To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill. A carte that charged was with hay. Chaucer. The charging of children's memories with rules. Locke.

A diplomatic representative, or minister of an inferior grade, accredited by the government of one state to the minister of foreign affairs of another; also, a substitute, ad interim, for an ambassador or minister plenipotentiary.

That may be charged, laid, imposed, or imputes; as, a duty chargeable on iron; a fault chargeable on a man.

The quality of being chargeable or expensive. [Obs.] Whitelocke.

At great cost; expensively. [Obs.]

Burdensome; troublesome. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Costly; expensive. [Obs.] The fineness of the gold and chargeful fashion. Shak.

A schoolhouse. [Obs.]

Free from, or with little, charge.

Burdensome. [Obs.] I was chargeous to no man. Wyclif, (2 Cor. xi. 9).

One who, or that which charges.

The office of a chargé d'affaires.

An opposing charge.

To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.

One who, or that which, discharges. Specifically, in electricity, an instrument for discharging a Leyden jar, or electrical battery, by making a connection between the two surfaces; a discharging rod.

To load with a double charge, as of gunpowder.

To charge (with); to impose (a charge) upon. His countenance would express the spirit and the passion of the part he was encharged with. Jeffrey.

A charge, lien, etc., that successively attaches to such assets as a person may have from time to time, leaving him more or less free to dispose of or encumber them as if no such charge or lien existed.

To charge erroneously, as in account. -- n.

To charge or load too heavily; to burden; to oppress; to cloy. Sir W. Raleigh.