chartered, ppl. a.
(ˈtʃɑːtəd)
[f. charter v.]
1. a. Founded, privileged, or protected by charter.
| c 1425 Wyntoun Cron. vii. vi. 113 Þai gert þe Chanownis be Chartryd. 1780 Cowper Table-t. 259 Britain's chartered land. 1800 Colquhoun Comm. Thames viii. 257 The Governors..of the different Chartered Companies. 1840 Marryat Poor Jack xxxi, There was a foundation or chartered school. 1876 Green Short Hist. v. §4 (1882) 239 The fugitive bondsmen found freedom in a flight to chartered towns. |
b. chartered accountant: an accountant who is qualified according to the rules of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, which received a royal charter in 1880, or of the similar chartered bodies in Scotland or Ireland.
| 1855 Index Juridicus: Scottish Law List 612 The Members of the Society of Accountants [in Edinburgh] have adopted the distinctive abbreviate letter of ‘C A’, Chartered Accountant. 1880 Accountant 8 May 5/2 The Members of this Society..are now enrolled as Chartered Accountants. 1955 Times 10 May 7/3 He said that chartered accountants had been employed for a long time as umpires in various matters. |
2. fig. Privileged; licensed.
| 1599 Shakes. Hen. V, i. i. 48 When he speakes, The Ayre, a Charter'd Libertine, is still. 1783–94 Blake Songs Exper., London 3 Near where the charter'd Thames does flow. 1862 Merivale Rom. Emp. (1865) VI. liv. 472 A certain sense of decorum..still preserved its sway over the chartered libertines of Rome. 1871 Morley Voltaire (1886) 25 The sworn and chartered foes of light. |
3. a. Of a ship or aircraft: hired under a charter-party.
| 1809 R. Langford Introd. Trade 130 Chartered, hired for a voyage. 1866 Harvard Mem. Biog. I. 420 The gunboats in the river; the chartered transports..lying at the levee. 1929 Lancet 12 Jan. 105/2 We have carried several invalids..either on scheduled services or by specially chartered aircraft. 1958 New Statesman 5 Apr. 427/3 They come..on chartered planes which take them around to see the most famous sights. |
b. fig. Freighted, charged.
| 1823 T. Roscoe Sismondi's Lit. S. Europe (Bohn) I. 375 The moment chartered with Clorinda's doom. |