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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
charge .
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Examples
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Now when he chargeth down on you, do ye receive him upon point of pike and sharp of sabre; for, indeed, he hath undertaken a mighty matter.
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Behold he putteth no trust in his Saints & his Angels he chargeth with folly
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When the King saw her charging down upon them, he knew her but too well and turning to his eldest son, said, O Bartaut,10 thou who art surnamed Ras al-Killaut11 this is assuredly thy sister Miriam who chargeth upon us, and she seeketh to wage war and fight fray with us.
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Behold he putteth no trust in his Saints & his Angels he chargeth with folly
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Our Sovereign Lord the King chargeth and commandeth all persons being assembled immediately to disperse themselves, and peaceably to depart to their habitations or to their lawful business, upon the pains contained in the act made in the first year of King George for preventing tumultuous and riotous assemblies.
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Here therefore, I doe apparantly publish, that neither of these men is guilty of the offence, wherewith so wilfully each chargeth himselfe.
The Decameron 2004
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Our Sovereign Lord the King chargeth and commandeth all persons being assembled immediately to disperse themselves, and peaceably to depart to their habitations or to their lawful business, upon the pains contained in the act made in the first year of King George for preventing tumultuous and riotous assemblies.
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Godmothers lay a hand: then the priest chargeth them, that the childe be brought vp in the faith and feare of God or Christ, and that it be instructed to clinege and bow to the images, end so they make an end: then one of the Godfathers must hang a crosse about the necke of the childe, which he must alwayes weare, for that
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The booke of Domesday before remembred, chargeth Douer with twentie vessels at the sea, whereof eche to be furnished with one and twentie men for fifteene dayes together: and saith further, that Rumney and Sandwich answered the like seruice.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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In either of those it was easier for him to raise false accusation against any (which he chargeth himself with) than at the bridge or so.
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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