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encumbrement (s.xii1/3)
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encumbrement (s.xii1/3)

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encombrement,  encoumbrement  
  FEW:  *comboros 2/ii,939a Gdf:  encombrement 3,110c GdfC: ∅ TL: encombrement 3,223 DEAF:  encombre (encombrement)  DMF:  encombrement  TLF:  encombrement  OED:  encumberment n.  MED:  encombrement n.  DMLBS:  incumbramentum 1316b

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1encumbrance, obstacle: 
( c.1135; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  Por ce [...] Est ta corone preste en gloire, En Paradis o il t’atent; N’i a negun enconbrement  S Marg wace 30.398 (M)
( 1269 )  e le remanant soit vendu par noz gens franchement, sanz encombrement de nulli  Foedera1 i 481
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  nus devom fuir cest monde ke nus ne encoroms encumbrement de pecché  Ancren2 244.21
♦burden, affliction: 
( 1354; MS: c.1360 )  Tresdouz Sires, de cest encombrement (=sloth) [...] me descombretz  Sz Med1 70
2lawcanon.eccl.encumbrance, illegal appointing of an incumbent to an ecclesiastical preferment: 
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  […] soit maundé al Evaske, qe il resceyve le clerc presenté; et s’il ne voille, tauntost soit somouns a respoundre pur quei noun. Et issi porra l’encombrement le Evask estre atteynt (=proved)  BRITT ii 181
3lawintrusion, encroachment on property: 
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  si [...] celi feffé [...] face acune intrusioun ou autre encoumbrement vers acune terce persone [...]  BRITT ii 112
4calamity, trouble: 
( s.xii1/3; MS: s.xiiex )  Ceste pere est defendement Encuntre tut encumbrement.  Lapid 256.1634
( 1260-70; MS: s.xiv1 )  Ki qe dute encumbrement Ceo pechié ne face nient  Man pechez 1363
5accoutrement: 
( s.xii4/4 )  a lur seinur en aie li unt dunet xv mars pur le encumbrement de sun fiht que il fist chevalyr  Twelfth-Century A-N Charter 24.168
faire encumbrement a
to bother, trouble, worry: 
( 1174-75; MS: s.xiiex )  Le pechié des Escoz li fait encumbrement  FANT OUP 1785
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