Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Charge \Charge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Charged}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Charging}.] [OF. chargier, F. charger, fr. LL. carricare,
   fr. L. carrus wagon. Cf. {Cargo}, {Caricature}, {Cark}, and
   see {Car}.]
   1. To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load;
      to fill.

            A carte that charged was with hay.    --Chaucer.

            The charging of children's memories with rules.
                                                  --Locke.

   2. 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.

            Moses . . . charged you to love the Lord your God.
                                                  --Josh. xxii.
                                                  5.

            Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition.
                                                  --Shak.

   3. To lay on, impose, or make subject to or liable for.

            When land shall be charged by any lien. --Kent.

   4. To fix or demand as a price; as, he charges two dollars a
      barrel for apples.

   5. 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.

   6. To impute or ascribe; to lay to one's charge.

            No more accuse thy pen, but charge the crime On
            native sloth and negligence of time.  --Dryden.

   7. 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.

            If he did that wrong you charge him with.
                                                  --Tennyson.

   8. 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.

            Their battering cannon charged to the mouths.
                                                  --Shak.

   9. To ornament with or cause to bear; as, to charge an
      architectural member with a molding.

   10. (Her.) 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.

   11. To call to account; to challenge. [Obs.]

             To charge me to an answer.           --Shak.

   12. To bear down upon; to rush upon; to attack.

             Charged our main battle's front.     --Shak.

   Syn: To intrust; command; exhort; instruct; accuse; impeach;
        arraign. See {Accuse}.