Meaning

(obsolete) At great cost; expensively..

Definitions by Sense

1. (obsolete) At great cost; expensively.
2. (obsolete) By discharging obligations; dutifully.
3. Such that a price or charge can be levied.
4. (law) In a manner for which criminal charges can be made.
5. (by extension) Such that one can be found guilty
6. Involving the buildup of an electric charge.

Example Sentences

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.

What Learning, either human or divine, can be necessary to a minister may as easily and less chargeably be had in any private house.

I must confess my weakness in this behalf; no man attends court fortunes with more impatience than I do. I esteem nothing more inexcusable, than to attend them chargeably, nor any expense so chargeable, as that of time.

And by the way, I cannot but regrate, the great losse Sir Thomas Glover received by the Duke of Moldavia, who chargeably entertained him two yeares in his house, and furnished him with great moneys, and other necessaries fit for his eminency:

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 .

These two gentlemen have served the Q. Ma. as treuly and as chargeably, from the firste suspicion of this rebellion, as any men of there degres have done; and have , from tyme to tyme, delivered to me better intelligence then I have receyved from any others;

"Mr. Davison," said he at another time, " has dealt most painfully and chargeably in her Majesty's service here, and you shall find him as sufficiently able to deliver the whole state of this country as any man that ever was in it, acquainted with all sorts here that are men of dealing.

He hath, in the course of his life here, carried himself in such good sort, as he hath from time to time worthily deserved the good opinion and liking of the State here, and as occasions have been offered hath been employed in matters of great weight, which he hath alwaya very dutifully and wisely discharged, and in all journeys and hostings hath ever very chargeably given his attendance, whereby he hath gotten great experience, and is one fit to be employed in very good place here.

Word Forms

• more chargeably
• most chargeably

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