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cumbered, ppl. a.|ˈkʌmbəd| [f. cumber v.] †1. a. Cf. cumber v. 1 b. b. Benumbed; cf. cumber v. 6.
c1430Chev. Assigne 71 ‘A kowarde of kynde’, quod she ‘& combred wrecche!’ c1430Hymns Virg. (1867) 53 A combrid wretche in cowardise. c1460Towneley Myst. 266 Combred cowardes I you calle. 1483Cath. Angl. 86 Cumbyrd (A. Cummerd); vbi Clumsyd. 2. Encumbered; hindered, hampered, occupied obstructively, etc.: see the verb.
1590Spenser F.Q. i. viii. 10 Whiles he strove his combred clubbe to quight Out of the earth. 1623Cockeram, Cumbred, let, hindred. 1684Bunyan Pilgr. ii. 150 We are full of Hurry, in Fair time. 'Tis hard keeping our Hearts and Spirits in any good Order, when we are in a cumbred Condition. 1848M. Arnold Poems, Bacchanalia, On the cumber'd plain. |