encharge

English

Etymology

Old French enchargier.

Verb

encharge (third-person singular simple present encharges, present participle encharging, simple past and past participle encharged)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To give to somebody as a charge; to entrust with a duty or task.
   • 1806, Francis Jeffrey, “Memoirs of Cumberland”, in The Edinburgh Review April 1806:

     he had the art of setting them express the spirit and the passion of the part he was encharged with

Related terms

• in charge

References

• “encharge”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• chagreen, genearch, grenache, rechange