ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Chargeably

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adverb

Quick meaning: Chargeably is an adverb meaning Such that a price or charge can be levied.

Meaning

Such that a price or charge can be levied.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

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:
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;

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include costfully, expensively, dearly, expensefully, pricily, unaffordably.

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