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Surcharge   /sərtʃˈɑrdʒ/  /sˈərtʃˌɑrdʒ/   Listen
noun
Surcharge  n.  
1.
An overcharge; an excessive load or burden; a load greater than can well be borne. "A numerous nobility causeth poverty and inconvenience in a state, for it is surcharge of expense."
2.
(Law)
(a)
The putting, by a commoner, of more beasts on the common than he has a right to.
(b)
(Equity) The showing an omission, as in an account, for which credit ought to have been given.
3.
(Railroads) A charge over the usual or legal rates.
4.
Something printed or written on a postage stamp to give it a new legal effect, as a new valuation, a place, a date, etc.; also (Colloq.), a stamp with a surcharge.


verb
Surcharge  v. t.  (past & past part. surcharged; pres. part. surcharging)  
1.
To overload; to overburden; to overmatch; to overcharge; as, to surcharge a beast or a ship; to surcharge a cannon. "Four charged two, and two surcharged one." "Your head reclined, as hiding grief from view, Droops like a rose surcharged with morning dew."
2.
(Law)
(a)
To overstock; especially, to put more cattle into, as a common, than the person has a right to do, or more than the herbage will sustain. Blackstone.
(b)
(Equity) To show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given.
3.
To print or write a surcharge on (a postage stamp).





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"Surcharge" Quotes from Famous Books



... to see the whole of what on Earth he sees in part; Where change shall neer surcharge the thought; nor hope deferd shall hurt ...
— The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi • Richard F. Burton
... is amongst the causes of want; and the great quantity of books maketh a show rather of superfluity than lack; which surcharge, nevertheless, is not to be removed by making no more books, but by making more good books, which, as the serpent of Moses, might devour the serpents of the enchanters."—Bacon. In point of style, his lordship is here deficient; and he has also mixed and marred ...
— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown
... of France, "undoubtedly more will be paid, but by whom? . . . By those only who do not pay enough; they will pay what they ought, according to a just proportionment, and nobody will be aggrieved. Privileges will be sacrificed! Yes! Justice wills it, necessity requires it! Would it be better to surcharge ...
— A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times - Volume VI. of VI. • Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot
... have since their beginning admitted several alterations and improvements, and 8 or 10 pounds per annum surcharge, would make the bills of Dublin to exceed all others, and become an excellent instrument of Government. To which purpose the forms for weekly, quarterly, and yearly ...
— Essays on Mankind and Political Arithmetic • Sir William Petty
... Twain is, first and foremost and exclusively, the humorist—with his shrieking Philistinism, his dominant sense for the colossally incongruous, his spontaneous faculty for staggering, ludicrous contrast. To the reflective, Mark Twain subsumed within himself a "certain surcharge and overplus of power, a buoyancy, and a sense of conquest" which typified the youth of America. It is memorable that he breathed in his youth the bracing air of the prairie, shared the collective ardour of the Argonauts, felt the rising thrill of Western adventure, and expressed the ...
— Mark Twain • Archibald Henderson


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