fraught

1. (transitive)Examples: "The ſhips are ſafe thou ſaiſt, and richly fraught?"; "[…] I denie that the Proteſtant doth not meddle vvith theſe things, but fraughteth his ſhippe onely vvith faith, and neuer beateth his braine about ſinnes."; "Tvvo Marchants departing from Spaine to get gold, touched vpon part of Barbary; vvhere […] the other fraughteth his veſſel vvith ſheep: […]"alsofigurativelyobsoletetransitive

2. (transitive)Examples: "From God these heavy cares are sent for our unrests; / And with such burdens for our wealth he fraughteth full our breasts."; "If after this command thou fraught the Court / VVith thy vnvvorthineſſe, thou dyeſt."; "[H]is vvife, out of vvhoſe flocke the Ram vvas taken, had by inceſtuous copulation vvith her huſbands Nephevv fraughted her ſelfe vvith a yong one."alsoarchaicfigurativelyobsoletetransitive

3. (transitive)Examples: "Therefore in ſayinge that he ſeeketh to none in heauẽ ſaue only god, he reiecteth all the counterfet Gods with which the comon errour & foly of yͤ world fraughteth heauen."; "[H]ee [Henry I of England] tooke chiefe pleaſure to reſide in his nevv Palace, vvhich himſelfe built at Oxford, both for the delight he had in learned men, himſelfe being very learned, and for the vicinity of his nevv Parke at VVoodſtocke, vvhich hee had fraught vvith all kind of ſtrange beaſts, vvherein hee much delighted, as Lyons, Leopards, Lynces, Camels, Porcupines, and the like."; "[W]hen his better earnings have fraught his trencher vvith a vvarm and pleaſing morſell, and his cup vvith a ſtronger liquor, hovv chearfully is he affected vvith that happy variety; and in the ſtrength of it digeſts many of his thinner meales?"Synonyms: equip, supplyalsoarchaicfigurativelyobsoletetransitive

4. (transitive)Scotlandalsofigurativelyobsoletetransitive

5. (transitive)Scotlandalsofigurativelyobsoletetransitive

6. (intransitive, obsolete) To form the cargo or passengers of a vessel.Examples: "Had I byn any God of povver, I vvould / Have ſuncke the Sea vvithin the Earth, or ere / It ſhould the good Ship ſo haue ſvvallovv'd, and / The fraughting Soules within her."alsofigurativelyintransitiveobsolete

1. (nautical) Of a boat, ship, or other vessel: laden with cargo.Examples: "The ſhippes retyre with riches full yfraught, […]"; "Theſe Shippes were fraught with men and women, and had to theyr Captayne one called Bartholoin or Partholin."; "[I]n the narrovv ſeas that part / The French and Engliſh, there miſcarried / A veſſel of our country richly fraught; […]"Synonyms: freightedAntonyms: unfraught, unfreightedalsofigurativelyobsolete

2. (figurative)Examples: "[O]ne the other fiercely did encounter, / Like Lions two yfraught with boyling wrath, […]"; "Fayre boſome fraught vvith vertues richeſt treſure, / The neaſt of loue, the lodging of delight: / the bovvre of bliſſe, the paradice of pleaſure, / the ſacred harbour of that heuenly ſpright."; "In this Chapter vve have a large Diſcourſe from the great Preacher of Righteouſneſs; A Diſcourſe fraught vvith all the commending Excellencies of Speech; […]"Synonyms: rifeAntonyms: unfraughtalsofigurativelyobsolete

3. (figurative)Examples: "a fraught relationship    a fraught process"; "Nor less her son the like encouraged she / To party bitterness, that was in her, / Ev'n of the fraughtest growth that well could be, / Surpassing most of men's, […]"; "In all of those respects it was a vocabulary that accommodated within itself (so to speak) the fraught transition from Gemeinschaft to Gesellschaft, or 'community' to 'society'. This transition was only made fraughter for contemporaries – and muddier for historians – by the politicization of commonwealth after 1640 and its sequestration by ideologues and partisans."Synonyms: wrought-upAntonyms: unfraughtalsofigurativelyobsoletespecifically

4. (figurative)Examples: "[W]hen the worlde is fraughted with ſo manye varlettes, that it will be a long time ere a man ſhall diſcerne the faythful from the Hipocrites."; "Hovv vvondrouſly vvould he her face commend, / Aboue that Idole of his fayning thought, / That all the vvorld ſhold vvith his rimes be fraught?"; "Come ſir, I vvould you vvould make vſe of that good vviſedome vvhereof I knovv you are fraught, and put avvay theſe diſpoſitions, that of late tranſforme you from vvhat you rightly are."Synonyms: equipped, suppliedAntonyms: unfraughtalsofigurativelyobsolete