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单词 chargeable
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chargeableadj.

/ˈtʃɑːdʒəb(ə)l/
Etymology: < charge v. + -able suffix.
I. Of the nature of a charge or burden. Obsolete.
1. Burdensome, troublesome. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > [adjective] > encumbering > burdening
chargeous138.
onerous1395
chargeantc1400
onerable?a1475
importunable?c1485
chargeand1487
onerosea1500
chargeable1509
chargeful1529
burdenousa1535
onerarious1548
burdensome1578
loadsome1578
burdeninga1616
loading1625
1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. xlixv Laboures dyuers to chargeable of warke.
a1635 T. Randolph Ode A. Stafford 4 Leave the chargeable noise of this great Towne.
2. Weighty, grave; important. Obsolete.
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [adjective] > grave or serious
heavy971
highOE
earnestfula1400
solemn1420
weighty1489
ponderousa1500
chargeablea1513
serious1531
earnest1533
gravous1535
capitala1538
deep1598
grave1824
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. clxv. f. lxxxxiiiiv Charlys was at that tyme lettyd with Chargeable busynesse.
1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 565/1 The iudges shall in full chargeable and lamentable wise, charge the parties..to make true relation.
1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. v. vi. §3. 718 His chargeable and remarkeable seruice.
3. Involving responsibility; responsible. Obsolete.
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society > morality > duty or obligation > responsibility > [adjective]
chargeablea1533
chargeful1553
responsible1763
a1533 J. Frith Mirroure (?1536) ii. sig. Av A chargeable office is committed vnto the.
1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie 4th Serm. sig. Kiiiv Supremacye [of the church]..wylbe a chargeable dignitie whan accompte shalbe asked of it.
4. Burdensome (as a tax or payment); costly, expensive. Obsolete. (Formerly the most frequent meaning.)
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society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > [adjective] > involving great or excessive expenditure
dear1044
chargeous138.
wastyc1380
dear-boughtc1384
costlewa1387
costlya1425
costy?c1430
costfulc1450
costablea1475
chargeable1480
sumptuous1485
chargeful1529
deep1608
tributary1632
burdenablec1650
expensivea1661
consumptive1753
capital-intensive1907
1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxxxiv. 255 Grete taxes, costages and raunsonnes—whiche charges were importable and to chargeable.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Sam. xiii. 25 Let vs not all go, lest we be to chargeable vnto the.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 234 Costly and chargeable apparell.
1618–29 in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll. (1659) App. 15 The Innes and Victualling-houses in England are more chargeble to the Travellers, then in other Countreys.
1660 Exact Accompt Trial Regicides (1679) 186 That [royalty] was a dangerous, chargeable, and useless Office.
1706 R. Estcourt Fair Example ii. i. 20 Oxford is a chargeable Place, Sir, there is no living there without it [money].
1796 E. Burke Two Lett. Peace Regicide Directory France iii, in Wks. (1808) VIII. 417 They..furnish them with every chargeable decoration.
II. Capable of being, or liable to be, charged: in various senses and constructions of the verb.
5. Liable to be called to account, answerable, responsible. Obsolete or archaic.
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society > morality > duty or obligation > responsibility > [adjective] > responsible, answerable, or liable
accountablec1400
accountant1429
answerable1446
responsalc1460
countable1495
liable1542
chargeable1546
responsable1565
correspondent1612
countant1638
responsible1640
responsive1642
amenablea1781
1546 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 199 Ye ministers of the Guyld be not chardgeable towardes the cure.
1613 Sir F. Cottington in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. i. 267 III. 109 None to speake with them but theyr chargable keepers.
1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. 431 A master is..chargeable if any of his family casteth any thing out of his house into the street..to the damage of any individual.
1845 H. J. Stephen New Comm. Laws Eng. II. 56 Writing signed by the party chargeable.
6. Liable to be charged with (a fault, etc.).
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > accusation, charge > [adjective] > open to accusation
chesounablea1340
challengeable1377
accusablea1525
answerable1527
condemnablea1586
responsible1648
imputable1660
chargeable1662
1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ iii. i. §7 Another thing which is chargeable with the very same difficulty in a higher degree.
1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 172. ⁋11 Chargeable with all the guilt and folly of their own actions.
1870 F. C. Bowen Logic xiii. 424 The faults with which it is chargeable.
7. Subject to a charge, tax, or payment.
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society > trade and finance > charges > [adjective] > subject to a charge
chargeable1614
1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor 268 If he then had a Thane..that to the King's tax..had fiue Hydes of land chargeable.
1641 Sir T. Trevor in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Third Pt. (1692) I. 341 That he the said John Hampden..was Chargeable with the Money then in question.
1775 S. Johnson Taxation no Tyranny 29 Chargeable by English taxation.
1817 Ld. Lascelles in Parl. Deb. 1st Ser. 782 A bill to make lead mines chargeable to the Poor Rates.
1845 J. R. McCulloch Treat. Taxation ii. v. 230 The various duties with which it had..been chargeable.
8. Liable to be made a charge or expense (to the parish, etc.).
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society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > [adjective] > liable to be made an expense
chargeable1646
1646 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 189 Widowes..not to be such as are or haue bene a charge or chargeable to the said parish of Hartest.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 117. ¶9 When an old Woman begins to..grow chargeable to a Parish, she is generally turned into a Witch.
1885 Law Rep.: Queen's Bench Div. 14 359 Relief and employment of the chargeable poor.
9. Capable of being charged as a liability, obligation, debt, fault, offence, upon, on a person, etc.
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > accusation, charge > [adjective] > capable of being charged
taxable1610
chargeable1654
objectable1656
1654 T. Gataker Disc. Apol. 47 The repair of the Bodie of the Church were no way chargable upon the Rector.
1796 Bp. R. Watson Apol. for Bible 271 The blunder is not chargeable upon Matthew.
1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) I. 510 Such debts as are chargeable on the inheritance.
1863 W. Phillips Speeches vi. 104 The same faults are chargeable on the leaders of all the popular movements in England.
10. Proper to be charged to an account.
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society > trade and finance > charges > [adjective] > subject to a charge > that may be charged to
chargeable1848
debitable1895
1848 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 III. ix. 497 The balance..unless this were also chargeable to territory.
1884 Law Rep.: Queen's Bench Div. 13 85 The question whether extraordinary expenditure after the entry..is rightly chargeable to general average.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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