chargeably

Adverb

chargeably (comparative more chargeably, superlative most chargeably)

1. (obsolete) At great cost; expensively.
   • 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...1735, Fynes Moryson, An History of Ireland, from the Year 1599, to 1603, page 58
   • What Learning, either human or divine, can be necessary to a minister may as easily and less chargeably be had in any private house.1877, David Masson, The Life of John Milton, page 614
2. (obsolete) By discharging obligations; dutifully.
   • 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...1600 March 9, Sir Arthur Gorges, Letter to the Earl of Nottingham and Sir Robert Cecil
   • 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;1810, Memorials of the Rebellion of 1569, page 137
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...1562, Anno XXVI. Henrici VIII.
   • And if his Majesties subjects of this Kingdome may be willing to set forth from everie severall Countrie but one good Ship yearely thither, with people and provision fit for them, it will be then not onely a great honour and benefit to his Majestie, but als a great increase of shipping and...1618, Samuel Purchas, Hakluytus Posthumus: Or Purchas His Pilgrimes
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...2005, West's Hawaii Reports: Cases Decided in the Supreme Court
   • On the other hand, the transporter, if he or she does not act alone in providing the transportation service, is party also to a different illicit agreement, an agreement with those involved in the transportation operation to provide that service to local distributors and thus chargeably with a...2002, West's Federal Supplement: Second series - Volume 219, page 567
5. (broadly) Such that one can be found guilty
   • 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 .1933, “Social Biology”, in The Journal of Education, volume 65, number 799
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...1946 January 1, John E. Gorham, Andrew W. Frevert, “2391894: Modulator”, in Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, page 57
   • An energy pick-up coil in the capsule receives a remotely-generated signal which is converted to DC power for chargeably establishing the capacitance and for driving a tank circuit which includes the capacitence as the only variable.1975, Catalog of Government Patents - Volume 4, page 510