[UNDER-1 10 a.]

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  Florio (1611), has Sottocaricare, to vnder-charge.

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  1.  trans. To impose insufficient charges on; to charge (a person, etc.) too little; to make an inadequate charge for (a thing).

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1633.  Strafford, Lett. & Disp. (1739), I. 223. They have swallowed down this Maxim, that the Revenue of this Crown must ever be rather over than undercharged.

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1712.  Prideaux, Direct. Ch.-Wardens (ed. 4), 57. If any be overcharged, or others undercharged, the Ordinary will condemn the Wrong done.

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1747.  Gentl. Mag., 99/1. Any defraud in houses undercharg’d, the persons, &c. to pay double rates.

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1864.  Webster, s.v., To undercharge goods or services.

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1895.  Daily News, 15 March, 5/6. He affirmed that so far from overcharging India, India was undercharged.

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  2.  To fill or furnish with less than the average charge.

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1794.  R. J. Sulivan, View Nature, II. 23. A body that has lost part of its natural quantity, is said to be undercharged, or negatively electrified.

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1881.  J. C. Maxwell, Electr. & Magn., I. 40. If the quantity of fluid in the body is … less [than that required], the body is said to be Undercharged.

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  Hence Undercharged ppl. a.

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1815.  J. Smith, Panorama Sc. & Art, II. 180. There is an attraction exerted between the overcharged extremity of one magnetic body, and the undercharged extremity of the other.

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1834.  J. S. Macaulay, Field Fortif., 193. When it is required to determine the charge of an undercharged mine, the same rule may be followed.

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