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encumberment Now rare.|ɛnˈkʌmbəmənt|
Also incumberment.
[a. OF. encombrement: see encumber v. and -ment.]
1. The action of encumbering; the state or fact of being encumbered.
c1330R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 148 God..Saued þam alle þo tymes fro þer encumberment. a1619Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. (1626) 98 Their numbers growing so great, as bred many incomberments. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 151 Subjecting him [the Deity] to Sollicitous Encumberment. 1854Tait's Mag. XXI. 454 Escaping from the rich encumberment of the metropolitan port. 1877Daily News 3 Dec. 6 Droves of cattle..add to the incumberment of the way.
†b. Contextually used for: Satanic temptation. Obs. Cf. encumber v. 3 c.
c1330Arth. & Merl. 706 It was..The deuels foule encumbrement. 15..Merlin 645 in Furniv. Percy Folio I. 442 Thorrow the ffeendes incomberment.
†c. Molestation, disturbance. Obs.
1509Hawes Past. Pleas. 14 Without Saturnus blacke encombrement. 1596Spenser F.Q. vi. viii. 38 To let her Sleepe out her fill without encomberment.
†d. Misfortune, mishap. Obs.
c1440Gesta Rom. 129, I have thorowe Encomberment slayne a man, and he is here with me.
†2. concr. Something that encumbers; = encumbrance. Obs.
1600Abp. Abbot Exp. Jonah 634 Let us shake off all incumberments. 1660H. More Myst. Godl. To Rdr. 29 Devested of those many encumberments of humane inventions both false and useless. 1664― Myst. Iniq. iii. 8 A troublesome and useless incumberment upon Christianity. |