chargeantn.
/ˈtʃɑːdʒənt/ One who has a charge upon an estate; = chargee n.
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society > law > legal obligation > bond or recognizance > requiring or giving legal security > [noun] > holder of charge or security
charger1869
chargee1884
chargeant1887
1887 Sc. Leader 14 Sept. 4 Attempts to defraud the mortgagees and family chargeants on their estates.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
† chargeantadj.
Obsolete.
1. Burdensome, onerous.
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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
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 1604 Of þat chargeaunt chace þat were chef huntes.
1401 in T. Wright Polit. Poems & Songs (1859) II. 106 And if freris ben combrouse, preestis ben wel more; or ellis telle..Whi the toon is chargeaunt more than the tother.
1440 J. Shirley Cron. Dethe James Stewarde (1818) 7 Imposicions upon his people, gretter and more chargeant then ever.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 69 Charyawnt, onerosus.
2. Cookery. ? Thick.
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the world > food and drink > food > consistency of food > [adjective] > stiff or thick
standingc1400
chargeantc1425
woolly1687
clunch1776
stodgya1852
c1425 Cookery Bk. (Harl. 279) liv Make it chargeaunt, and coloure it wyth safroun.
c1425 Cookery Bk. (Harl.) 21 Late it boyle wyl tille it be as chargeaunt as it may.
a1440 Douce MS. 55 f. 67 b Loke that be natt so chargeant butt att a man may powre it out of the bolle.
a1500 Noble Bk. Cookery (Napier 1882) 90 When it boilithe let it not be chargant.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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n.1887
adj.c1400