ppl. a. [f. CHARGE v.]

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  1.  Loaded, laden, burdened, filled, etc.; see the verb. Now esp. = ‘Charged with electricity.’

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c. 1325.  E. E. Allit. P., B. 1295. Wyth charged chariotes þe cheftayne he fynde[z].

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c. 1450.  Merlin, 84. The lady is lefte charged with childe.

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1588.  T. Delany, Roxb. Ball. (1887), VI. 385. With charged Cannons, they laide about them then.

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1677.  Moxon, Mech. Exerc. (1703), 159. A piece of Timber over charg’d for its Bearing.

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a. 1716.  Blackall, Wks. (1723), I. 82. Going to let off a charg’d Pistol at his Breast.

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1762–9.  Falconer, Shipwr., I. 665. Round the charged bowl the sailors form a ring.

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c. 1790.  Imison, Sch. Arts, I. 55. Connecting one of the wires with the outside of a charged jar.

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1881.  Maxwell, Electr. & Magn., I. 45. Methods of insulating charged conductors.

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  b.  Painting. See CHARGE v. 9 b.

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1784.  J. Barry, Lect. Art, iii. (1848), 131. His women in general are either charged and heavy … or dry and petite. Ibid., 134. The heavy charged style at the Farnesina.

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  † 2.  Naut. In High-charged: see CARGUED.

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a. 1642.  Sir W. Monson, Naval Tracts, III. (1703), 356–7. Two manner of Built Ships, the one with a flush Deck…; the other lofty and high charged, with a Half Deck, Fore-Castle, and Copperidge-heads.

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