also fraughted. Forms: α. 4 frauȝt, 5 fraght, (frawth, 7 frought), 4– fraught. β. 6–8 fraughted. [pa. pple. of FRAUGHT v.]
1. Of a vessel: Laden. Also full fraught.
α. 13[?]. Coer de L., 2459.
| The drowmound was so hevy fraught, | |
| That unethe myght it saylen aught. |
1486. Bk. St. Albans, L j. A shippe fraght full of hawkis.
c. 1572. Gascoigne, Fruites Warre, cvii. Wks. (1587), 136. The ships retire wyth riches full yfraught.
1666. Lond. Gaz., No. 106/1. Smaller Vessels that lay fraught for the Streights.
1756. Foote, Eng. fr. Paris, Prol.
| Of all the Passions that possess Mankind, | |
| The Love of Novelty rules most the Mind, | |
| In search of this from Realm to Realm we roam, | |
| Our fleets come fraught with every Folly home. |
1827. Macaulay, Misc. Poems (1860), 398.
| His painted bark of cane, | |
| Fraught, for some proud bazaar’s arcades, | |
| With chestnuts from his native shades. |
β. 1563. Sackville, Induct. Mirr. Mag., lxxi.
| And furth we launch, ful fraughted to the brinke, | |
| Whan with the vnwonted weyght the rustye keele | |
| Began to cracke as if the same should sinke. |
1623. Bingham, Xenophon, 113. In the meane time came a Ship from Heraclea fraughted with Barley-meale, and with beasts for sacrifice, & with Wine.
1668. Lond. Gaz., No. 261/2. The ships are said to be richly fraughted.
2. transf. Stored, supplied, furnished, filled, equipped with.
α. 1570–6. Lambarde, A Perambulation of Kent (1826), 313. This River fraught with these strong and serviceable Ships.
1595. Spenser, Hymn Heavenly Beauty, xxxii.
| Aboue that Idole of his fayning thought, | |
| That all the world shold with his rimes be fraught? |
1605. Bacon, Adv. Learn., I. iv. § 10. So in natural history, we see there hath not been that choice and judgment used as ought to have been; as may appear in the writings of Plinius, Cardanus, Albertus, and divers of the Arabians; being fraught with much fabulous matter, a great part not only untried but notoriously untrue.
1669. W. Simpson, Hydrol. Chym., 137. The Scarborough and Malton water are better fraught and more richly laden with its Minerals.
1671. Milton, P. R., III. 335.
| Mules after these, Camels and Dromedaries, | |
| And Waggons fraught with Utensils of War. |
1786. Mad. D’Arblay, Diary, 7 Nov. The little Princess had excited her curiosity by the full-fraught pincushion.
1801. Southey, Thalaba, V. iii.
| A desert Pelican had built her nest | |
| In that deep solitude, | |
| And now, return’d from distant flight, | |
| Fraught with the river-stream, | |
| Her load of water had disburthen’d there. |
1812. Crabbe, Tales, Procrastination, 175.
| A silver urn with curious work was fraught; | |
| A silver lamp from Grecian pattern wrought. |
β. 1574. trans. Marlorat’s Apocalips, 32. In these dayes, when the worlde is fraughted with so manye varlettes, that it will bee a lonng time ere a man shall discerne the faythful from the Hipocrites.
1612. Brinsley, Lud. Lit., 176. For this matter of Theames, it is fraughted full of the graue testimonies and sentences of many of the auncientest, wisest, and most experienced; all fitly applyed, without any matter to corrupt or offend, and in a most familiar, easie, and pleasing stile.
1631. Raleigh’s Ghost, 165. Seing all the bookes of the Prophets are euen fraughted and stored with such predictions.
b. of a person or his attributes.
α. 14[?]. Cast. Perseverance, 94, in Eng. Miracle Plays (1890), 67. With ryche rentes thou schalt be frawth.
c. 1530. H. Rhodes, Bk. Nurture, 312, in Babees Bk. (1868), 90.
| Take payne in youth, if case thou wilt | |
| of men be called wyse, | |
| Or thou must take it in thy age, | |
| or be fraught full of vyce. |
1605. Shaks., Lear, I. iv. 241.
| Gon. I would you would make vse of your good wisedome | |
| (Whereof I know you are fraught), and put away | |
| These dispositions, which of late transport you | |
| From what you rightly are. |
1704. Swift, Mech. Operat. Spirit. The first Ingredient towards the Art of Canting is a competent Share of Inward Light; that is to say, a large Memory, plentifully fraught with Theological Polysyllables, and mysterious Texts from Holy Writ.
1803. S. Pegge, Anecd. Eng. Lang., 86. William Grocyn … having heard much of the Greek language (of which he had already acquired a random kind of knowledge) travelled into Italy to cultivate a closer acquaintance with it, and returned to Oxford full fraught with Greek.
β. a. 1541. Wyatt, Poet. Wks. (1861), 148.
| And with my tears to assay to charge mine eyes twain, | |
| Like as my heart above the brink is fraughted full of pain. |
1586. J. Hooker, Girald. Irel., in Holinshed, II. 145/1. The said lawiers … thought themselues so well fraughted with knowledge in the laws, as they were able to wade in all matters of the deepest points of the law.
1647. A. Ross, Myst. Poet., xiv. 225. Such a father is fraughted with more griefs than Pandora’s boxe was with mischiefes.
1798. Missionary Mag., No. 24. 224. From these retreats, he often returned fraughted with light.
3. fig. Fraught with: a. attended with, carrying with it as an attribute, accompaniment, etc.; b. ‘big’ with the promise or menace of; destined to produce.
α. 1576. A. Fleming, A Panoplie of Epistles, 178. Such thinges as bee intricate and fraught with difficulties.
1650. T. B[ayley], Worcester’s Apoph. (1669), 92. The Bible told him no such matter, and that he believed it to be so ful of truth, & sincerity, and that it respected the salvation of mens souls so much, that if there were any such thing, it would in charity (with which it was so fully fraught) do no less than acquaint him also with it.
1755. Young, Centaur, vi. Wks. 1757, IV. 280. Liberty, fraught with blessings as it is, when unabused, has, perhaps, been abused to our destruction.
1840. H. Ainsworth, Tower of London (1864), 70. I ask you why your assent was given to this measure, which, by your own admission, is fraught with danger.
1869. Lecky, Europ. Mor., I. i. 148. For reverence grows out of a sense of constant dependence. It is fostered by that condition of religious thought in which men believe that each incident that befalls them is directly and specially ordained, and when every event is therefore fraught with a moral import.
β. 1578. Chr. Prayers, in Priv. Prayers (1851), 485. This life of ours is fraughted with adversities, which grow unto every of us, either out of the sinfulness of the flesh, or of each man’s own folly, or of other men’s spitefulness.
1643. Wither, Campo Musæ, 7.
| Nor startled by those tedious Declarations, | |
| Which with more Wit then Truth, full fraughted came. |
