forechargeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From fore- +‎ charge.

動詞

forecharge (三人称単数 現在形 forecharges, 現在分詞 forecharging, 過去形および過去分詞形 forecharged)

1. (transitive, まれに) To charge in advance.
   • 1896, Ohio Educational Monthly - Volume 45, Issues 1-36 - Page 98:

     Thus prophetic spake A voice of faith, forecharged with evolution's law.

   • 1982, Review of Socialist Law - Volume 8 - Page 57:

     The rights are listed in article 35," and one or two of them merit some further comment: " person brought to administrative responsibility shall have the right to forecharge vprave znakomit'sia himself with the materials of the case..."

   • 2004, Laura (Riding) Jackson, ‎John Nolan, ‎Alan James Clark, Under the Mind's Watch:

     We are charged with the instinct of the kind of unity-potential I have described, forecharged; and this is not subject to evolutionary development, is something that has been since the creation, and towards which the materiality of the universe has evolved, [...]

名詞

forecharge (複数形 forecharges)

1. A charge made beforehand or in advance.
   • 1796, The Parliamentary Register:

     The city had a plan on paper which, as he had before stated, would cost 900,000l. and tho' comprehending a very extensive system of improvement, would be completed in 24 months, or three years at most, without any forecharge whatever.

   • 1903, John Rankine, The Scots Revised Reports:

     To such a party, a railway suddenly coming through the country to which he has retired to spend his leisure, must, indeed, be a God-send, if he chooses to hold himself out as an amenity witness, and if the forecharges are sustained.

2. (artillery) The shot in the forward part of a firearm cartridge.
   • 2014, Arthur J Marder, From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow:

     The fore-charges were individually packed in thin metal containers and loaded in the gun that way;