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chargeably (comparative more chargeably, superlative most chargeably)

1. (obsolete) At great cost; expensively.
   • 1735, Fynes Moryson, An History of Ireland, from the Year 1599, to 1603, page 58:

     If her Majesty think her own Occasions, and not us her poor Ministers, to be the Cause of this huge Expence, I shall willingly indure the Purgatory I live in, and sacrifice my Time, my Life and my Living, to do her the best Service I can; but if you find that she conceiveth the worse of me, because I am the Cook to dress her Diet here so chargeably, I beseech you, Sir, ( if I may ever deserve your Love ) use your uttermost Power to rid me speedily of my Office, and I dare presume that I have made no evil Way for my Successor to tread after me.

   • 1877, David Masson, The Life of John Milton, page 614:

     What Learning, either human or divine, can be necessary to a minister may as easily and less chargeably be had in any private house.

   • 1899, Sir Edmund William Gosse, The life and letters of John Donne, volume 2, page 46:

     I must confess my weakness in this behalf; no man attends court fortunes with more impatience than I do. I esteem nothing more inexcusable, than to attend them chargeably, nor any expense so chargeable, as that of time.

   • 1906, William Lithgow, The Totall Discourse of the Rare Adventures & Painefull Peregrinations of William Lithgow, page 126:

     And by the way, I cannot but regrate, the great losse Sir Thomas Glover received by the Duke of Moldavia, who chargeably entertained him two yeares in his house, and furnished him with great moneys, and other necessaries fit for his eminency:

2. (obsolete) By discharging obligations; dutifully.
   • 1600 March 9, Sir Arthur Gorges, Letter to the Earl of Nottingham and Sir Robert Cecil:

     I must in all humility seek some comfort and relief to shun those hateful inconveniences that do urgently follow penury and despair, or else be enforced to seek leave to forsake my country and live privately and poorly abroad, than at home to beg or steal, that for these twenty years' space have in as good sort and as chargeably many ways served her Majesty as any gentleman in England of my coat .

   • 1810, Memorials of the Rebellion of 1569, page 137:

     These two gentlemen have served the Q. Ma. as treuly and as chargeably, from the firste suspicion of this rebellion, as any men of there degres have done; and have , from tyme to tyme, delivered to me better intelligence then I have receyved from any others;

   • 1861, Motley, History of the United Netherlands, volume 1, page 400:

     "Mr. Davison," said he at another time, " has dealt most painfully and chargeably in her Majesty's service here, and you shall find him as sufficiently able to deliver the whole state of this country as any man that ever was in it, acquainted with all sorts here that are men of dealing.

   • 1877, Great Britain. Public Record Office, Calendar of State Papers, Relating to Ireland, page 281:

     He hath, in the course of his life here, carried himself in such good sort, as he hath from time to time worthily deserved the good opinion and liking of the State here, and as occasions have been offered hath been employed in matters of great weight, which he hath alwaya very dutifully and wisely discharged, and in all journeys and hostings hath ever very chargeably given his attendance, whereby he hath gotten great experience, and is one fit to be employed in very good place here.

3. Such that a price or charge can be levied.
   • 1562, Anno XXVI. Henrici VIII.:

     all such summes of money, wherewith the Dignitees, benefices, and other promocyons spiritual afore mentioned within their Dioces, chargeably by this act , that be sette taxed and charged towardes the paymente of the faithe yerely pension , and shal pay and content the said summes of money yerely, […]

   • 1618, Samuel Purchas, Hakluytus Posthumus: Or Purchas His Pilgrimes:

     And if his Majesties subjects of this Kingdome may be willing to set forth from everie severall Countrie but one good Ship yearely thither, with people and provision fit for them, it will be then not onely a great honour and benefit to his Majestie, but als a great increase of shipping and Marriners, and the imploying and inriching of many thousands of poore people which now live chargeably to the Parishioners .

   • 1875, New Hampshire (Colony) Probate Court, Provincial and State Papers - Volume 9, page 289:

     As to the settlem of the Rev Mr Odlin the Elder, tis out of the Question, but as to the other we see no such absurdity, for many Reasons, but especially considering this was purposely made as chargeably, even to us, as it could be, by making that a Public charge which might have been otherways defrayed

4. (law) In a manner for which criminal charges can be made.
   • 2005, West's Hawaii Reports: Cases Decided in the Supreme Court:

     When the court decides that a divorcing party chargeably reduced the dollar value of the marital estate, the court must add the dollar amount of that chargeable reduction to the dollar amount of the marital estate and treat that dollar amount as having been awarded to the divorcing party who caused that chargeable reduction

   • 2002, West's Federal Supplement: Second series - Volume 219, page 567:

     On the other hand, the transporter, if he or she does not act alone in providing the transportation service, is party also to a different illicit agreement, an agreement with those involved in the transportation operation to provide that service to local distributors and thus chargeably with a transportation conspiracy as well, which is what the government has done here.

   • 2016, California. Court of Appeal (2nd Appellate District)., page 24:

     UCLA has not shown (or attempted), nor could they, that Plaintiff chargeably knew the etiology of his heart condition, nor its legal causation by Defendants, nor even that the police acts were legally culpable.

5. (by extension) Such that one can be found guilty
   • 1933, “Social Biology”, in The Journal of Education, volume 65, number 799:

     In the face of the facts that are here so clearly displayed, it is impossible to avoid the conclusion tha the nation would gain greatly, and social welfare be advanced if all those who are "chargeably" defective were to have no descendants .

6. Involving the buildup of an electric charge.
   • 1946 January 1, John E. Gorham, Andrew W. Frevert, “2391894: Modulator”, in Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, page 57:

     In a pulse generator whose pulse repetition rate is synchronized with an alternating-current power source, the combination comprising a capacitor, an inductor in series connection with said capacitor to form a resonant circuit, and unfiltered rectifier associated with the alternating-current power source and having its pulsating direct-current output chargeably applied to said resonant circuit, […]

   • 1975, Catalog of Government Patents - Volume 4, page 510:

     An energy pick-up coil in the capsule receives a remotely-generated signal which is converted to DC power for chargeably establishing the capacitance and for driving a tank circuit which includes the capacitence as the only variable.

   • 1977, Johisa Kawamato, David Joseph Miller, “4027179: High Repetition Rate Injection Laser Modulator”, in Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, page 2225:

     […] connected to a charge storing means for chargeably accumulating a charge to thereby reverse bias […]