Obs.; also 5 acombraunce, 6 acc-. [for earlier encombraunce, a. OFr. encombrance, f. encombre-r: see ACCUMBER and -NCE.] The act of encumbering, impeding, overwhelming; molestation, injury.
1489. Caxton, Faytes of Armes, I. xvii. 49. Which thyng is grete acombraunce and full of parel.
a. 1521. Helyas, in Thoms’ E. E. Pr. Rom. (1858), III. 67. To noye and do accombraunce to them.
