ppl. a. [UN-1 8.]
1. † a. Not called upon; unsummoned. Obs.
1456. Sir G. Haye, Law Arms (S.T.S.), 91. Gyf a man gais to the weris unchargit, sall he tak wagis?
1539. Reg. Privy Seal Scot., II. 472/2. The said Johnne to be … unchargit to find souerte to the law.
b. Not burdened (with something).
c. 1475. Golagros & Gaw., 435. Sen hail our doughty elderis has bene endurand, Thriuandly in this thede, vnchargit as thril.
1746. Eliza Heywood, Female Spect., No. 24 (1748), IV. 317. When the Almighty, offended with our presumption, gives his fiat to our wishes, they seldom come uncharged with ills.
1896. Westm. Gaz., 23 Sept., 5/1. The national desire to be at any rate uncharged with responsibility.
c. Not formally accused.
1900. Westm. Gaz., 3 April, 3/2. His two native evangelists, who were arrested with him, are reported to be still in prison, untried and uncharged.
2. Unassailed, unattacked.
1607. Shaks., Timon, V. iv. 56. Then there’s my Gloue Desend and open your vncharged Ports.
3. Her. Not furnished with a charge.
1610. Guillim, Heraldry, II. v. 49. The Bend containeth in breadth the fifth part of the Field, as it is vncharged.
1845. Antiq. & Archit. Year Bk., 312. Beneath each figure appears a shield, but uncharged.
4. a. Not loaded with powder and shot.
1719. De Foe, Crusoe, I. (Globe), 307. Snapping an uncharg’d Pistol, close to the Powder, [I] set it on fire.
1745. Mrs. Eliz. Montagu, Corr. (1906), I. 203. The first was my servant, valiantly armed with two uncharged pistols.
a. 1829. Parcy Reed, xv., in Child, Ball., III. 26/2. You have left me in a fair field standin, And in my hand an uncharged gun.
b. Not charged with electricity.
1815. J. Smith, Panorama Sci. & Art, II. 263. A coating was then put on the uncharged glass.
1873. Maxwell, Electr. & Magn., I. 53. When they are gone, other uncharged particles [of air] take their place.
c. Not furnished with a load.
1796. T. Twining, Trav. India, etc. (1893), 157. The jolting of the uncharged machine became almost insupportable.
5. Not subjected to a financial charge.
1894. Daily Tel., 5 Dec., 5/7. A Four and a Half per Cent. Gold Loan, secured on the uncharged revenues of the Treaty ports.
