surcharging

Verb

surcharge (third-person singular simple present surcharges, present participle surcharging, simple past and past participle surcharged)

1. To apply a surcharge.
2. To overload; to overburden.
   • to surcharge an animal or a ship; to surcharge a cannon
3. To overstock; especially, to put more cattle into (e.g. a common) than one has a right to do, or more than the herbage will sustain.
   • Another diſturbance of common is by ſurcharging it; or putting more cattle therein than the paſture and herbage will ſuſtain, or the party hath a right to do.1768, William Blackstone, “Of Disturbance”, in Commentaries on the Laws of England, book III (Of Private Wrongs), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 237
4. To show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given.
   • The Idle multitude surcharge their laies1599, Samuel Daniel, Musophilus

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