Obs. exc. dial. Also comble, and in pa. pple. comelid. [a. Fr. comble-r to load:—L. cumulāre: see ACUMBLE. Cf. CUMBER in same sense.] trans. To oppress, deprive of power; esp. to stiffen or benumb with cold.
1388. Wyclif, Isa. xxxv. 3. Coumforte ȝe comelid [v.rr. clumsid, cumblid] hondes [manus dissolutas].
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 88. Comelyd, for colde, eviratus.
a. 1825. Forby, Voc. E. Anglia, Cumbled … oppressed, cramped, stiffened with cold. Cumbly-cold, adj. stiff, and benumbed with cold. Intensely cold, if applied to weather.
b. intr. To be or become benumbed.
c. 1280. Old Age, in E. E. P. (1862), 149. I snurpe, i snobbe, i sneipe on snovte, Þroȝ kund i comble an kelde.
Hence Cumbled ppl. a., Cumbledness.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 89. Comelydnesse, eviracio.
