charged, ppl. a.
(tʃɑːdʒd)
[f. charge v.]
1. Loaded, laden, burdened, filled, etc.; see the verb. Now esp. = ‘Charged with electricity’.
| c 1325 E.E. Allit. P. B. 1295 Wyth charged chariotes þe cheftayne he fynde[z]. c 1450 Merlin 84 The lady is lefte charged with childe. 1588 T. Deloney Roxb. Ball. (1887) VI. 385 With charged Cannons, they laide about them then. 1677 Moxon Mech. Exer. (1703) 159 A piece of Timber over charg'd for its Bearing. a 1716 Bp. O. Blackall Wks. (1723) I. 82 Going to let off a charg'd Pistol at his Breast. 1762–9 Falconer Shipwr. i. 665 Round the charged bowl the sailors form a ring. c 1790 J. Imison Sch. Arts I. 55 Connecting one of the wires with the outside of a charged jar. 1881 Maxwell Electr. & Magn. I. 45 Methods of insulating charged conductors. |
b. Painting. See charge v. 9 b.
| 1784 J. Barry Lect. Art iii. (1848) 131 His women in general are either charged and heavy..or dry and petite. Ibid. 134 The heavy charged style at the Farnesina. |
† 2. Naut. In high-charged: see cargued.
| a 1642 Sir W. Monson Naval Tracts iii. (1704) 357/1 Two manner of built ships: the one with a flush deck..the other lofty and high charged, with a half-deck, forecastle, and copperidge-heads. |