Crossword clues for chargeable
chargeable
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chargeable \Charge"a*ble\, a.
That may be charged, laid, imposed, or imputes; as, a duty chargeable on iron; a fault chargeable on a man.
Subject to be charge or accused; liable or responsible; as, revenues chargeable with a claim; a man chargeable with murder.
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Serving to create expense; costly; burdensome.
That we might not be chargeable to any of you.
--2. Thess. iii. 8.For the sculptures, which are elegant, were very chargeable.
--Evelyn.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., "burdensome," from charge (v.) + -able. Sense of "subject to a tax or payment" is from 1610s; that of "liable to be made an expense" is from 1640s; that of "liable to be charged" (with an offense, etc.) is from 1660s.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context nonstandard of expenses etc. English) That may be charged to an account. 2 (context rare English) Liable to be accused (either formally or informally).
WordNet
adj. liable to be accused, or cause for such liability; "the suspect was chargeable"; "an indictable offense" [syn: indictable]
Usage examples of "chargeable".
Whether the mistake is chargeable on the very ancient annals and the linen books of the magistrates, deposited in the temple of Moneta, and which Licinius Macer occasionally cites as authorities, which have Aulus Cornelius Cossus consul with Titus Quintius Pennus, in the ninth year after this, every person may form his own opinion.
Tab, already legendary even in a hard-drinking port like this, that might finance a small War, chargeable to the Royal Society of course, and beyond them, should they demur above a sum Mr.
In justice to the missionaries, however, I will willingly admit, that where-ever evils may have resulted from their collective mismanagement of the business of the mission, and from the want of vital piety evinced by some of their number, still the present deplorable condition of the Sandwich Islands is by no means wholly chargeable against them.
How much less guilty, then, are our islanders, who of these three sins are only chargeable with one, and that the least criminal!
Suffice it to say that ultimately I succeeded in landing my goods, on which the duty chargeable was apparently enormous.
Do not make me chargeable, O Hassan, if the philtre is without effect.
FOR SO SHALL IT BE WITH THE MAN THAT FEARS THE LORD, and though by reason of the many losses he sustained by imprisonment and spoil, of his chargeable sickness, etc.
He was reconciled to it when, looking on their child, he discerned, that for a cancelling of the errors chargeable to them, the father and mother had kept faith with Nature.
I give to the beggar at my door are meant as rewards for the vices of his life, and to make them chargeable to myself.
The basenesses so commonly charged to religion's account are thus, almost all of them, not chargeable at all to religion proper, but rather to religion's wicked practical partner, the spirit of corporate dominion.
To explain these would require a long detail, but would shew you that nine tenths of these bankruptcies are truly English bankruptcies in no wise chargeable on America.
Take at least two weeks off, and tell anybody who asks that it's administrative leave, not chargeable as ordinary leave.
Gibbon, it may be fearlessly asserted, is rarely chargeable even with the suppression of any material fact, which bears upon individual character.
Thousands of children born to this kind of humanity become chargeable to the guardians or find entrance to the many children's homes organised by philanthropy.
The farmers of the taxes, being chargeable with the loss, complained to Caesar, and Caesar held Herod to payment, and Herod, on his part, seized property of Ilderim, whom he charged with treasonable neglect of duty.