chargeable

English

Etymology

charge +‎ -able

Adjective

chargeable (comparative more chargeable, superlative most chargeable)

1. (nonstandard, of expenses etc.) That may be charged to an account.
2. (rare) Liable to be accused (either formally or informally).

Quotations

• 1859 John Thomas Arlidge - On the state of lunacy and the legal provision for the insane

  The law provides for the occasional visitation of pauper lunatics in asylums chargeable to parishes, by a certain number of the officers . . .

• 1853 The Speeches of the Right Honourable Charles James Fox in the House of Common

  These cruelties are not, indeed, chargeable on Mr. Hastings personally; but when I state, that he levied an unjust war, the consequences that follow he is guilty of.