encumbrus (1139-50)
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encumbrus (1139-50)

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  FEW:  *comboros 2/ii,939b Gdf:  encombros 3,112a GdfC: ∅ TL: encombros 3,228 DEAF: ∅ DMF:  encombreux  TLF: ∅ OED:  encumbrous a.  MED:  encombrous a.  DMLBS: ∅
encombrus,  encumbros  

a.

1burdening, weighing down: 
( s.xiv1/3?; MS: c.1330 )  Pur veintre l’encombrus pecché de Tristesce ke honist corps e alme covient grant force a deboter le taunt cum vous poez  7
♦clogged up, over-used: 
( 1139-50; MS: s.xiiex )  Li quarz (=main road in England) si est mult encumbrus; Cest chemin est Fosse apelez, Si vait par multes citez  246
2 troublesome, forming an obstacle: 
( 1194-99; MS: s.xiii2 ) Mult ot el parlement quereles, Mult de vielz e mult de noveles; Mult enn i avoit de encumbroses E de fieres e de orgoilluses  125
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