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Definition of Encharge
1. v. t. To charge (with); to impose (a charge) upon.
2. n. A charge.
Definition of Encharge
1. Verb. (obsolete transitive) To give to somebody as a charge; to entrust with a duty or task. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Encharge
1. to enjoin [v ENCHARGED, ENCHARGING, ENCHARGES] - See also: enjoin
Lexicographical Neighbors of Encharge
Literary usage of Encharge
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth by James Anthony Froude (1875)
"... of Rome a brief to encharge him by commandment that he should agree to no
meeting." 1 Henry turned away his mind from the thought of an interview. ..."
2. The Manuscripts of His Grace the Duke of Portland: Preserved at Welbeck Abbey by John Nalson, Robert Harley Oxford, William Stratford, James Joel Cartwright, Richard Ward (1893)
"... et pour le repos et tranquillité dicelle ville et du pays, et pour éviter les
desordres que y aura, comme je me confie de vous et le vous encharge bien ..."
3. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"3 (Mrs. Marwood); ' Femme qui encharge, that grows big on't, who burnishes, or
whose belly increases', Cotgrave; Dryden, Hind and Panther, i. 390. ..."
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