ppl. a. [f. CHARTER v.]
1. Founded, privileged or protected by charter.
c. 1425. Wyntoun, Cron., VII. vi. 113. Þai gert þe Chanownis be Chartryd.
1780. Cowper, Table-t., 259. Britain’s chartered land.
1800. Colquhoun, Comm. Thames, viii. 257. The Governors … of the different Chartered Companies.
1840. Marryat, Poor Jack, xxxi. There was a foundation or chartered school.
1876. Green, Short Hist., v. § 4 (1882), 239. The fugitive bondsmen found freedom in a flight to chartered towns.
2. fig. Privileged; licensed.
1599. Shaks., Hen. V., I. i. 48. When he speakes, The Ayre, a Charter’d Libertine, is still.
1783–94. Blake, Songs Exper., London, 3. Near where the charter’d Thames does flow.
1862. Merivale, Rom. Emp. (1865), VI. liv. 472. A certain sense of decorum … still preserved its sway over the chartered libertines of Rome.
1871. Morley, Voltaire (1886), 25. The sworn and chartered foes of light.
3. Hired under a charter-party.
1809. R. Langford, Introd. Trade, 130. Chartered, hired for a voyage.
1866. Harvard Mem. Biog., I. 420. The gunboats in the river; the chartered transports … lying at the levee.
b. fig. Freighted, charged.
1823. T. Roscoe, Sismondi’s Lit. S. Europe (Bohn), I. 375. The moment chartered with Clorinda’s doom.
