Charge
King James Dictionary [1]
CHARGE,
1. To rush on to fall on to attack, especially with fixed bayonets as, an army charges the enemy. 2. To load, as a musket or cannon to thrust in powder, or powder and ball or shot. 3. To lead or burden to throw on or impose that which oppresses as, to charge the stomach with indigestible food or to lay on, or to fill, without oppressing as, to charge the memory with rules and precepts to charge the mid with facts. 4. To set or lay on to impose, as a tax as, the land is charged with a quit rent a rent is charge on the land. 5. To lay on or impose, as a task.
The gospel chargeth us with piety towards God.
6. To put or lay on as, to charge a building with ornaments, often implying superfluity. 7. To lay on, as a duty followed by with.
The commander charged the officer with the execution of the project. See Genesis 40:4
8. To entrust to as, an officer is charged with dispatches. 9. To set to, as a dept to place on the debit side of an account as, to charge a man with the price of goods sold to him. 10. To load or lay on in words, something wrong, reproachful or criminal to impute to as, to charge a man with theft. 11. To lay on in words to impute to followed by on before the person as, to charge a crime on the offender to charge evil consequences on the doctrines of the stoics. 12. To lay on, give or communicate, as an order, command or earnest request to enjoin to exhort.
In all this, Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly. Job 1 .
13. To lay on, give or communicate, as an order, command or earnest request to enjoin to exhort. Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high-minded. 1 Timothy 4 .
In this sense, when the command is given in the name of God, or with an oath, the phrase amounts to an adjuration.
To adjure to bind by an oath. 1 Samuel 14:28 .
14. To give directions to to instruct authoritatively as, the judge charged the grand jury to inquire respecting breaches of the peace. 15. To communicate electrical matter to, as to a coated vial, or an electrical battery.
CHARGE, To make an onset. Thus Glanville says, like your heroes of antiquity, he charges in iron and we say, to charge with fixed bayonets. But in this application, the object is understood to charge the enemy.
CHARGE, n.
1. That which is laid on or in in a general sense, any load or burden. It is the same word radically as cargo. 2. The quantity of powder, or of powder and ball or shot, used to load a musket, cannon or other like instrument. 3. An onset a rushing on an enemy attack especially by moving troops with fixed bayonets. But it is used for an onset of cavalry as well as of infantry. 4. An order, injunction, mandate, command.
Moses gave Joshua a charge. Numbers 27 .
The king gave charge concerning Absalom. 2 Samuel 18 .
5. That which is enjoined, committed, entrusted or delivered to another, implying care, custody, oversight, or duty to be performed by the person entrusted.
I gave Hanani charge over Jerusalem. Nehemiah 7 .
Hence the word includes any trust or commission an office, duty, employment. It is followed by of or over more generally by of. Hence,
6. The person or thing committed to anothers custody, care or management a trust. Thus the people of a parish are called the ministers charge.
The starry guardian drove his charge away to some fresh pasture.
7. Instructions given by a judge to a jury, or by a bishop to his clergy. The word may be used as synonymous with command, direction, exhortation or injunction, but always implies solemnity. 8. Imputation in a bad sense accusation.
Lay not this sin to their charge. Acts 7 .
9. That which constitutes debt, in commercial transactions an entry of money or the price of goods, on the debit side of an account. 10. Cost expense as, the charges of the war are to be borne by the nation. 11. Imposition on land or estate rent, tax, or whatever constitutes a burden or duty. 12. In military affairs, a signal to attack as, to sound the charge. 13. The posture of a weapon fitted for an attack or combat.
Their armed slaves in charge.
14. Among farriers, a preparation of the consistence of a thick decoction, or between an ointment and a plaster, used as a remedy for sprains and inflammations. 15. In heraldry, that which is borne upon the color or the figures represented on the escutcheon, by which the bearers are distinguished from one another. 16. In electrical experiments, a quantity of electrical fluid, communicated to a coated jar, vial or pane of glass.
A charge of lead, is thirty-six pigs, each containing six stone, wanting two pounds.
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): (v. t.) The price demanded for a thing or service.
(2): (v. t.) To fix or demand as a price; as, he charges two dollars a barrel for apples.
(3): (v. t.) To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.
(4): (v. t.) To lay on or impose, as a task, duty, or trust; to command, instruct, or exhort with authority; to enjoin; to urge earnestly; as, to charge a jury; to charge the clergy of a diocese; to charge an agent.
(5): (v. t.) To lay on, impose, or make subject to or liable for.
(6): (v. t.) Heed; care; anxiety; trouble.
(7): (v. t.) Harm.
(8): (v. t.) To place something to the account of as a debt; to debit, as, to charge one with goods. Also, to enter upon the debit side of an account; as, to charge a sum to one.
(9): (v. t.) To impute or ascribe; to lay to one's charge.
(10): (v. t.) To accuse; to make a charge or assertion against (a person or thing); to lay the responsibility (for something said or done) at the door of.
(11): (v. t.) To place within or upon any firearm, piece of apparatus or machinery, the quantity it is intended and fitted to hold or bear; to load; to fill; as, to charge a gun; to charge an electrical machine, etc.
(12): (v. t.) To ornament with or cause to bear; as, to charge an architectural member with a molding.
(13): (v. t.) To assume as a bearing; as, he charges three roses or; to add to or represent on; as, he charges his shield with three roses or.
(14): (v. t.) To call to account; to challenge.
(15): (v. t.) To bear down upon; to rush upon; to attack.
(16): (v. i.) To make an onset or rush; as, to charge with fixed bayonets.
(17): (v. i.) To demand a price; as, to charge high for goods.
(18): (v. i.) To debit on an account; as, to charge for purchases.
(19): (v. i.) To squat on its belly and be still; - a command given by a sportsman to a dog.
(20): (v. t.) A load or burder laid upon a person or thing.
(21): (v. t.) A person or thing commited or intrusted to the care, custody, or management of another; a trust.
(22): (v. t.) Custody or care of any person, thing, or place; office; responsibility; oversight; obigation; duty.
(23): (v. t.) That quantity, as of ammunition, electricity, ore, fuel, etc., which any apparatus, as a gun, battery, furnace, machine, etc., is intended to receive and fitted to hold, or which is actually in it at one time
(24): (v. t.) An entry or a account of that which is due from one party to another; that which is debited in a business transaction; as, a charge in an account book.
(25): (v. t.) An order; a mandate or command; an injunction.
(26): (v. t.) An address (esp. an earnest or impressive address) containing instruction or exhortation; as, the charge of a judge to a jury; the charge of a bishop to his clergy.
(27): (v. t.) An accusation of a wrong of offense; allegation; indictment; specification of something alleged.
(28): (v. t.) Whatever constitutes a burden on property, as rents, taxes, lines, etc.; costs; expense incurred; - usually in the plural.
(29): (v. t.) A soft of plaster or ointment.
(30): (v. t.) A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack; as, to bring a weapon to the charge.
(31): (v. t.) The act of rushing upon, or towards, an enemy; a sudden onset or attack, as of troops, esp. cavalry; hence, the signal for attack; as, to sound the charge.
(32): (n.) Weight; import; value.
(33): (n.) Thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; - called also charre.
(34): (v. t.) A bearing. See Bearing, n., 8.
Charles Buck Theological Dictionary [3]
1. a sermon preached by the bishop to his clergy;
2. Among the Dissenters, it is a sermon preached to a minister at his ordination, generally by some aged or respectable preacher.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [4]
is, in ecclesiastical terminology,
(1) a sermon preached by the bishop to his clergy
(2) among the Dissenters, a sermon preached to a minister at his ordination, generally by some aged or able divine, and containing a view of the Christian ministry-in its nature, duties, trials, and encouragements..
