pple. and ppl. a.[f. FREIGHT v. + -ED1.] Laden with cargo.
1553. Eden, Treat. Newe Ind. (Arb.), 21. There yearely passesth fro this citie [Bangella] fyftie shyppes frayghted wyth gossampine cotton, and silke clothes.
1692. Luttrell, Brief Rel. (1857), II. 33. A rich ship from Spain, freighted with pieces [printed peices] of eight to the value of 100,000l.
1703. Tate, Her Majesty’s Pict., xxix. To Western Worlds our Freighted Fleets shall run.
1852. Mrs. Stowe, Uncle Tom’s C., xxxi. The boat moved on—freighted with its weight of sorrow,—up the red, muddy, turbid current, through the abrupt, tortuous windings of the Red river.
1855. Prescott, Philip II., I. IV. v. 455. Their galleys still returned to port freighted with the spoils of the barbarian.
b. transf. and fig.
1567. Drant, Horace’s Epist., vii. D v.
| At supper when he had at full Layde out his lauishe mynde, | |
| At length to bed to take a nap he fraighted, was assynde. |
1645. Pagitt, Heresiogr. (1661), 124. Some persons among those (saith my Author) that went hence to New-England, being fraighted with many loose, and unsound opinions, which they durst not here, they there began to vent them.
1725. L. Welsted, Οικογραφια, 23.
| Th’ alcove on top! from whence one may | |
| At once, the risinng spires survey, | |
| The freighted Thames what treasure fills, | |
| And ’cross the flood the Kentish hills. |
1811. L. M. Hawkins, The Countess and Gertrude, I. iv. 57. He therefore endured with complacency, her freighted work-basket—‘a thing of shreds and tatters.’
1850. W. Irving, Goldsmith, xxvi. 257. ‘I was just arrived from college,’ said he, ‘full freighted with academic gleanings, and our author did not disdain to receive from me some opinions and hints towards his Greek and Roman Histories.’
1860. Motley, Netherl. (1868), I. i. 2. Interminable epistles which contained the irresponsible commands of this one individual, and were freighted with the doom and destiny of countless millions of the world’s inhabitants.
