Chargeably
adv ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 At great cost; expensively. obsolete
"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."
- 2 By discharging obligations; dutifully. obsolete
"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 ."
- 3 Such that a price or charge can be levied.
"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, […]"
- 4 In a manner for which criminal charges can be made.
"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"
- 5 Such that one can be found guilty broadly
"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 ."
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- 6 Involving the buildup of an electric charge.
"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, […]"
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From chargeable + -ly.
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