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▪ I. † ˈcumble, n. Obs.
[ad. F. comble:—L. cumul-um heap, heap over and above a measure, summit, apex, crown, etc.]
1. Heap, accumulation. rare.
1694R. Burthogge Reason 276 That cumble of Accidents, External, Internal.
2. Highest point, apex, culmination. (A Gallicism affected by Howell.)
1640Howell Dodona's Grove 42 For a cumble of all felicity. c1645― Lett. iii. xxxi, In Philip the seconds time the Spanish Monarchy came to its highest cumble. 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.
▪ II. † ˈcumble, v. 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.
1388Wyclif Isa. xxxv. 3 Coumforte ȝe comelid [v. rr. clumsid, cumblid] hondes [manus dissolutas]. c1440Promp. Parv. 88 Comelyd, for colde, eviratus. a1825Forby 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.
c1280Old Age in E.E.P. (1862) 149, I snurpe, i snobbe, i sneipe on snovte, Þroȝ kund i comble an kelde.
Hence ˈcumbled ppl. a., ˈcumbledness.
c1440Promp. Parv. 89 Comelydnesse, eviracio. |