Overcharge

Overcharge - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

OVERCH'ARGE, v.t.

1. To charge or load to excess; to cloy; to oppress.

The heavy load of abundance with which we overcharge nature -

2. To crowd too much.

Our language is overcharged with consonants.

3. To burden.

4. To fill to excess; to surcharge; as, to overcharge the memory.

5. To load with too great a charge, as a gun.

6. To charge too much; to enter in an account more than is just.

OVERCHARGE, n.

1. An excessive load or burden.

2. A charge in an account of more than is just.

3. A charge beyond what is proper.

o-ver-charj': Lu 21:34, "lest haply your hearts be overcharged with drunkenness" (baruno, "burden," here with the force "be occupied with"); 2Co 2:5, the King James Version "that I may not overcharge you" (epibareo, "overload"), the Revised Version (British and American) "that I press not too heavily."

See CHARGES.