a. Obs. [f. CHARGE sb. + -FUL.]

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  1.  Onerous, burdensome; expensive, costly.

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c. 1529.  Frith, Antith. (1829), 303. Christ came to seek the poor and comfort them; he was not chargeful unto them.

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1548.  Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Acts, 3 b. That ye may be hable to susteyne so chargefull an entrepryse.

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1590.  Shaks., Com. Err., IV. i. 29. Chargefull fashion.

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1598.  Spenser, Wks. (Grosart), I. 553. Less chargefull is the grosse accompte.

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  2.  Full of responsibility, responsible, grave.

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1553.  Bale, Vocacyon, in Harl. Misc. (Malh.), I. 342. Faithful, studiouse, and diligent in that so chargefull a function.

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1611.  Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., IX. ix. (1632), 584/2. How to gather money, to furnish so chargefull an enterprize.

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