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单词 encumbrance
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encumbrancen.

/ɛnˈkʌmbrəns/
Forms: α. Middle English encombraunce, ( -beraunce), Middle English–1500s encumbraunce, Middle English–1600s encombrance, 1600s– encumbrance; β. 1500s incomb(e)raunce, 1500s–1600s incombrance, (1600s incumberance), 1600s–1800s incumbrance.
Etymology: < Old French encombrance, < encombrer to encumber v.; see -ance suffix.
1.
a. Encumbered state or condition; trouble, molestation, perplexity. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > adversity > [noun] > tribulation, trouble, or affliction
teeneOE
harmOE
sourc1000
trayOE
angec1175
wosithc1200
ail?c1225
barrat?c1225
misease?c1225
passion?c1225
troublec1230
sorenessc1275
grievancea1300
cumbermentc1300
cumbering1303
thro1303
angera1325
strifea1325
sweama1325
encumbrancec1330
tribulationc1330
threst1340
mischiefa1375
pressc1375
unhend1377
miseasetya1382
angernessc1390
molestc1390
troublancec1400
notea1425
miseasenessc1450
cumber?a1513
tribule1513
unseasonableness?1523
troublesomeness1561
tribulance1575
tine1590
trials and tribulations1591
pressure1648
difficulty1667
hell to pay1758
dree1791
trial and tribulation1792
Queer Street1811
Sturm und Drang1857
a thin time1924
shit1929
crap1932
shtook1936
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > perplexity, bewilderment > [noun]
mingingOE
riddleOE
cumbermentc1300
willa1325
encumbrancec1330
were1338
perplexitya1393
discomfiturea1425
cumbrancec1460
confuse1483
proplexity1487
perplexion?c1500
amazedness?1520
amazement1553
subversion1558
amaze?1560
perplexednessa1586
confusedness1587
puzzle1599
confusion1600
mizmaze1604
discomfita1616
embarras1627
obfuscation1628
mystery1629
confoundedness1641
puzzledness1662
confuseness1710
puzzlement1731
puzzledom1748
embarrassment1751
puzzleation1767
bepuzzlement1806
conjecture1815
mystification1817
bewilderment1819
perplexment1826
fuddle1827
wilderment1830
discomforture1832
head-scratching1832
baffle1843
posement1850
muddlement1857
turbidity1868
fogging1878
bemuddlement1884
harl1889
befuddlement1905
turbidness1906
wuzziness1942
perplexability1999
c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 5509 Þe douke Otus..His gret encumbraunce him telde.
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xviii. 265 (Wright's text) Care & encombraunce is comen to vs alle.
c1430 Syr Gener. (Roxb.) 2657 So I me drede..To haue som grete encomberaunce.
1509 J. Fisher Mornynge Remembraunce Countesse of Rychemonde (de Worde) sig. Biv A lyfe voyde of all sorow & encombraunce.
1559 Certayne Serm. (new ed.) Fear of Death iii, in J. Griffiths Two Bks. Homilies (1859) i. 103 The great encombrance which our spirit hath by this sinful flesh.
b. Satanic temptation: = encumberment n. 1b.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > motivation > attraction, allurement, or enticement > [noun] > temptation > satanic temptation
encumbermentc1330
temptation1340
encumbrancea1500
encumber1546
a1500 (?c1450) Merlin i. 5 Wyte ye well that this is the encombraunce of the deuell.
2. concrete. That which encumbers; a burden, impediment, ‘dead weight’; a useless addition; in stronger sense, an annoyance, trouble.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > [noun] > encumberment > that which or one who
encumberc1330
cumberc1425
cumbererc1450
encumbrance1535
encumbry1546
pesterance1548
burdener1552
pester1569
cloyance1593
encumberment1600
impedimenta1600
pesterer1611
baggage1612
luggage1614
cumbrance1645
embarrassment1676
downdraughta1681
hamperera1837
cumberment1840
cloyer1842
1535 Stat. 27 Hen. VIII c. 3 Which..shall be a great incumberance to all such the Kinges subiectes.
1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie ii. 8 The incomberaunces are..so great as it would bee vnpossible for vs to ouercome them if God assisted vs not.
1659 J. Milton Considerations touching Hirelings 95 To hire incumbents or rather incumbrances, for life-time.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson i. i. 11 This incumbrance of a convoy gave us some uneasiness.
1764 R. Burn Hist. Poor Laws 172 Housekeepers will be freed from the intolerable incumbrance of beggars at their doors.
1833 I. Taylor Fanaticism ii. 35 Malign dispositions and vindictive habits are..miserable encumbrances of the mind.
1851 ‘L. Mariotti’ Italy in 1848 iv. 234 The great mass of volunteers, especially Lombards, were looked upon as a mere encumbrance.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. §27. 196 Divesting my limbs of every encumbrance.
3. A person dependent on another for support; esp. in phrase without encumbrance = ‘having no children’.
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society > authority > subjection > service > servant > retainer or follower > [noun] > dependant
spear1539
dependerc1565
dependant1598
pensionnaire1604
feedera1616
reliant1665
encumbrance1742
to-fall1822
loaf-eater1844
1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews II. iv. ii. 182 I will have no more Incumbrances brought on us. View more context for this quotation
1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 165. §4. 148 Left the younger sons encumbrances on the eldest.
1833 H. Martineau Three Ages iii. 109 The widow..may advertise herself as ‘without incumbrance’, to undertake any situation.
1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 28 Nov. 10 Coachmen..rarely have children, or, as they say..incumbrances.
4. Law. A burden on property: ‘A claim, lien, liability attached to property; as a mortgage, a registered judgment, etc.’ (Wharton).
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > indebtedness > [noun] > encumbrance or mortgage on property
mortgagec1450
encumbrancy1554
engagement1611
encumbrance1629
clag1697
1629 Vse of Law 32 in J. Doddridge Lawyers Light These acts are collaterall encombrances.
1642 tr. J. Perkins Profitable Bk. iv. §269. 120 He hath this Land without encombrance of Action.
1658 H. Slingsby Diary (1836) 200 That my ancient and lineally descended estate, might without incumbrance fall upon you my elder son.
1770 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xl. 108 You accepted the succession with all its incumbrances.
1827 J. Kent Comm. Amer. Law II. xxxix. 378 If a vendor, knowing of an incumbrance upon an estate, etc.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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