ppl. a. [f. CUMBER v.]

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  † 1.  a. Cf. CUMBER v. 1 b. b. Benumbed; cf. CUMBER v. 6.

2

c. 1430.  Chev. Assigne, 71. ‘A kowarde of kynde,’ quod she ‘& combred wrecche!’

3

c. 1430.  Hymns Virg. (1867), 53. A combrid wretche in cowardise.

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c. 1460.  Towneley Myst., 266. Combred cowardes I you calle.

5

1483.  Cath. Angl., 86. Cumbyrd (A. Cummerd); vbi Clumsyd.

6

  2.  Encumbered; hindered, hampered, occupied obstructively, etc.: see the verb.

7

1590.  Spenser, F. Q., I. viii. 10. Whiles he strove his combred clubbe to quight Out of the earth.

8

1623.  Cockeram, Cumbred, let, hindred.

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1684.  Bunyan, Pilgr., II. 150. We are full of Hurry, in Fair time. ’Tis hard keeping our Hearts and Spirits in any good Order, when we are in a cumbred Condition.

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1848.  M. Arnold, Poems, Bacchanalia. On the cumber’d plain.

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