Obs. [ad. F. comble:—L. cumul-um heap, heap over and above a measure, summit, apex, crown, etc.]
1. Heap, accumulation. rare.
1694. Burthogge, Reason, 276. That cumble of Accidents, External, Internal.
2. Highest point, apex, culmination. (A Gallicism affected by Howell.)
1640. Howell, Dodona’s Grove, 42. For a cumble of all felicity. Ibid. (1645), Lett., III. xxxi. In Philip the seconds time the Spanish Monarchy came to its highest cumble. Ibid. (1650), Cotgrave’s Fr. Eng. Dict., Ep. Ded. This word Souverain … hath rais’d it self to that cumble of greatnes that it is now applied only to the King.
