ppl. a. Obs. [? f. OE. behlæstan to load; cf. Ger. belasten.] Burdened, charged, bound.
1441. in Archæol., XVII. 214 (Halliw.). James Skidmore is belast and wt holden toward the seid Sir James for an hole yeer.
1470. Harding, Chron., ccxxi. The duke of Brytain then was his manne, For fee belaste without rebellion.
c. 1572. Gascoigne, Fruites Warre (1831), 215. At euery porte it was … belast, That I … might not go out.
