1. Burdensome, onerous.
c. 1340. Gaw. & Gr. Knt., 1604. Of þat chargeaunt chace þat were chef huntes.
1401. Pol. Poems (1859), II. 105–6. And if freris ben combrouse, preestis ben wel more; or ellis telle … Whi the toon is chargeaunt more than the tother.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 69. Charyawnt, onerosus.
1440. J. Shirley, Dethe K. James (1818), 7. Imposicions upon his people, gretter and more chargeant then ever.
2. Cookery. ? Thick.
c. 1425. Cookery Bk., liv. (Harl. MS. 279). Make it chargeaunt, and coloure it wyth safroun. Ibid., 21. Late it boyle wyl tille it be as chargeaunt as it may.
c. 1440. Douce MS. 55 fol. 67 b. Loke that be natt so chargeant butt att a man may powre it out of the bolle.
a. 1500. Noble Bk. Cookery (Napier, 1882), 90. When it boilithe let it not be chargant.
