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Webster 1913 Edition
Chargeable
Charge′a-ble
,Adj.
1.
That may be charged, laid, imposed, or imputes;
as, a duty
. chargeable
on iron; a fault chargeable
on a man2.
Subject to be charge or accused; liable or responsible;
as, revenues
. chargeable
with a claim; a man chargeable
with murder3.
Serving to create expense; costly; burdensome.
That we might not be
chargeable
to any of you. 2. Thess. iii. 8.
For the sculptures, which are elegant, were very
chargeable
. Evelyn.
Webster 1828 Edition
Chargeable
CHARGEABLE
,Adj.
1.
That may be charged; that may be set, laid, imposed; as, a duty of forty per cent is chargeable on wine.2.
Subject to be charged; as, wine is chargeable with a duty of forty per cent.3.
Expensive; costly; as a chargeable family.4.
Laying or bringing expense.Because we would not be chargeable to any of you. 1 Thess. 2.
5.
Imputable; that may be laid or attributed as a crime, fault or debt; as a fault chargeable on a man.6.
Subject to be charged or accused; as a man chargeable with a fault, or neglect.Definition 2024
chargeable
chargeable
English
Adjective
chargeable (comparative more chargeable, superlative most chargeable)
- (nonstandard, of expenses etc.) That may be charged to an account.
- (rare) Liable to be accused (either formally or informally).
- 1865, Joel Prentiss Bishop, Commentaries on the Criminal Law (volume 2, page 380)
- Thus, if one confines another, even a prisoner, who has not had the small-pox, with an infected person, whereby the one confined takes the distemper and dies, he is chargeable with murder.
- 1865, Joel Prentiss Bishop, Commentaries on the Criminal Law (volume 2, page 380)
Quotations
- 1859 John Thomas Arlidge - On the state of lunacy and the legal provision for the insane
- The law provides for the occasional visitation of pauper lunatics in asylums chargeable to parishes, by a certain number of the officers . . .
- 1853 The Speeches of the Right Honourable Charles James Fox in the House of Common
- These cruelties are not, indeed, chargeable on Mr. Hastings personally; but when I state, that he levied an unjust war, the consequences that follow he is guilty of.