Literary notes about Charged (AI summary)
The word "charged" serves a multifaceted role in literature, its meaning shifting with context to evoke authority, action, or even symbolism. In some texts, it functions as a directive, as when a character is entrusted with a specific duty or responsibility (e.g., [1], [2], [3]), while in legal and accusatory narratives it marks the imposition of blame or criminal allegation (see [4], [5], [6]). In battle or movement scenes, it depicts a forceful advance or attack, intensifying the sense of urgency and valor (as in [7], [8], [9], [10]). The term also appears in heraldic language to describe designs on a shield (notably [11], [12], [13]), and at times, it is used in a scientific sense to denote being energized or electrically loaded ([14], [15]). Thus, across genres and periods, "charged" operates as a dynamic and context-dependent device contributing layers of meaning to the narrative.
- and when she came in she charged me to give them as much corn as ever they would eat.”
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding - She said I was; and then she told me a secret, which she strictly charged me to tell no person.’
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes - When you see Nadernannerl, tell her I spoke to Herr Brindl (her lover), and he charged me to give her his regards.
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - In Bowling Green, Virginia, Moses Christopher, a colored lad, was charged with assault, September 10.
— from The Red Record by Ida B. Wells-Barnett - As he was charged with uttering forged notes he had been taken to Newgate, and was in danger of being hanged.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova - John Cavendish appeared in the dock at the Old Bailey, charged with “The Wilful Murder of Emily Agnes Inglethorp,” and pleaded “Not Guilty.”
— from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie - Still Rávaṇ for the battle burned: At Lakshmaṇ next his car he turned, And charged amain with furious show, Straining in mighty hands his bow.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki - Then as some monster of the sea Cleaves swift-advancing billows, he Charged with impetuous onset through The foe, and cleft the host in two.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki - The trumpets sounded, and the knights charged each other in full career.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott - They turned when they arrived at their old position to regard the ground over which they had charged.
— from The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane - —A label of five points argent, charged with three roses and two crosses gules.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies - The well-known augmentation of the Medicis family, viz.: "A roundle azure, charged with three fleurs-de-lis or," was granted by Louis XII.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies - —A label of three points, the centre point charged with St. George's cross, and each of the other points with a rose gules.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies - The whole air here tonight has been charged with electricity.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. Montgomery - It was no rail; but a metallic cable charged with electricity from the deck communicating with the platform.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne