[f. CHART sb.1] trans. To make a chart of; to lay down in a chart; to map.
1851. Nichol, Archit. Heav., 114. The idea of actually charting these profound regions was especially accordant with the genius of Sir William Herschel.
1856. Kane, Arct. Expl., I. xx. 254. A large indentation which they had seen and charted.
1879. Times, 5 June, 9/2. Even the great outlines of the ocean bed have been charted.
1885. Proctor, in Knowledge, No. 172. 119. To chart every single star … in its proper place.
b. fig. To figure as in a chart; to outline.
1842. Tennyson, Walk. to Mail, 97. The world … charts us all in its coarse blacks or whites.
Hence Charted ppl. a., Charting vbl. sb.
1854. Tait’s Mag., XXI. 455. A star … that stood not in the chartings of his heaven-inquiring seer.
1857. I. Taylor, World of M., 831. The charted pathway of direct knowledge.
