ppl. a. [f. ENCUMBER v. + -ED1.] In the senses of the verb: Hampered, burdened, etc. Of an estate: Charged with a mortgage.
1784. Cowper, Task, IV. 498. Society grown weary of the load, Shakes her incumber’d lap, and casts them out.
1847. Bright, Sp. Irel., 13 Dec. The encumbered condition of landed property in Ireland.
1859. Jephson, Brittany, ii. 9. The desperate anxiety of those who travelled in more dignified and encumbered style.
1884. Mackeson & Smith, ed. Coote’s Law of Mortg., 473. The Incumbered Estates Court [West Indies].
