CHARGE

Definitions

1. 1. 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.
2. 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. Moses . . . charged you to love the Lord your God. Josh. xxii. 5. Cromwell, I charge thee, fing away ambition. Shak.
3. 3. To lay on, impose, or make subject to or liable for. When land shal be charged by any lien. Kent.
4. 4. To fix or demand as a prince; as, he charges two dollars a barrelk for apples.
5. 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.
6. 6. To impute or ascribe; to lay to one's charge. No more accuse thy pen, but charge the crime On native loth and negligence of time. Dryden.
7. 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. If the did that wrong you charge with. Tennyson.
8. 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. Their battering cannon charged to the mouths. Shak.
9. 9. To ornament with or cause to bear; as, to charge an architectural member with a molding.
10. 10. 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.
11. 11. To call to account; to challenge. [Obs.] To charge me to an answer. Shak.
12. 12. To bear down upon; to rush upon; to attack. Charged our main battle's front. Shak.