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cumbrous, a.|ˈkʌmbrəs|
Forms: 4–7 cumberous, (8 cumb'rous), 4 Sc. cumrouss, 5 comberus, -ose, comborous, comerus, comorows, cumbrusse, 5–6 comerous, 5–7 comberous, combrous, 6 commerous(e, cummerouse, coumbreous, 5– cumbrous.
[f. cumber n. + -ous: cf. obs. F. combreux (Palsgr.).]
†1. Presenting obstruction; difficult of passage or access; = cumbersome 1. Obs.
1375Barbour Bruce x. 25 Ane montane..So cumrouss, and eke so stay, That it wes hard to pas that way. 1495Will of Shaa (Somerset Ho.), Noyous & comberus high weyes. 1551Recorde Pathw. Knowl. To Rdr., The way muste needes be comberous, wher none hathe gone before. 1600Holland Livy xxi. xxv. 407 The rough, comberous, and unpassable forests [saltu invio atque impedito]. 1613W. Browne Brit. Past. ii. iv, Among the combrous brakes. 1861Lytton & Fane Tannhäuser 107 Now o'er the cumbrous hills began to creep A thin and watery light.
†2. Causing trouble, distress, or annoyance; full of trouble or care; troublesome; harassing; wearisome, oppressive; = cumbersome 2. Obs.
c1400Mandeville (1839) xxvii. 272 Many oþer marueyles ben þere, þat it were to combrous and to long to putten it in scripture of bokes. 1447O. Bokenham Seyntys (Roxb.) 134 A dysshese she had ful comerous. 1590Recorde, etc. Gr. Artes 291, I shall have a cumbrous worke to do. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. i. 23 A cloud of cumbrous gnattes doe him molest. 1667Milton P.L. xi. 549 How I may be quit, Fairest and easiest, of this cumbrous charge.
3. Troublesome from bulk or heaviness; burdensome, unwieldy, clumsy; = cumbersome 3.
a1400Pistel of Susan 224 Vr copus weore cumberous, and cundelet vs care. 1494Fabyan Chron. vii. 610 The other [ordenaunce] that were heuy & cumbrusse, he lefte behynde hym. 1555Eden Decades 361 Certeyne lyttle clockes..the whiche..are not comberous to be caryed abowt. 1718Pope Iliad v. 314, I hate the cumbrous chariot's slow advance. 1813Scott Rokeby v. iv, Armour..Cumbrous of size, uncouth to sight. 1875Jevons Money (1878) 144 A currency 15½ times as heavy and cumbrous.
b. fig.
1751Johnson Rambler No. 179 ⁋11 Throwing off those cumbrous ornaments of learning. 1835Arnold Let. in Stanley Life & Corr. (1844) I. vii. 424 To correct the style where it is cumbrous or incorrect. 1877Geikie Christ lii. (1879) 624 The cumbrous machinery of rite and ceremony. |