1encumbrance, obstacle:
(
1321
)
Ceo serreit grant encombrance d’aver acquitance de chescun pays
Ed II xxvi 245
♦
burden, weight:
(
1300;
MS: s.xiv1
)
cil dedenz a desfiailes Lour enchargent testes e cous De l’emcombrance de granz cups
118.746
2lawencumbrance, illegal appointing of an incumbent to an ecclesiastical preferment:
(
1343
)
n’ad pas moustré certeyn fait coment il l’encombra, saver, q’il resceust asqun clerk a autri presentement, ou par sa collacion demene fist institucion et induccion, saunz quel fait ceo ne poet estre dit encombraunce
17-18 Ed III 101
(
1344
)
Ceo respouns est doubleun la voidaunce a autre temps, et autre travers del encombraunce
18 Ed III 97
3med.obstruction:
(
MS: s.xiii2
)
Icest boivere conforte l’estomac e [...] le delivere de totes encumbrances
49r22
4calamity, trouble:
(
s.xiii2/4;
MS: s.xiii2
)
E par lur fole avantance Cheent en greignur encumbrance
141va21
(
s.xivin;
MS: s.xivm
)
defendez moy de encumbrance e de enfernal prison
100
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