单词 | encumbrance |
释义 | encumbrancen. a. Encumbered state or condition; trouble, molestation, perplexity. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > [noun] > tribulation, trouble, or affliction teeneOE harmOE sourc1000 trayOE angec1175 wosithc1200 ail?c1225 barrat?c1225 misease?c1225 passion?c1225 troublec1230 sorenessc1275 grievancea1300 cumbermentc1300 cumbering1303 thro1303 angera1325 strifea1325 sweama1325 encumbrancec1330 tribulationc1330 threst1340 mischiefa1375 pressc1375 unhend1377 miseasetya1382 angernessc1390 molestc1390 troublancec1400 notea1425 miseasenessc1450 cumber?a1513 tribule1513 unseasonableness?1523 troublesomeness1561 tribulance1575 tine1590 trials and tribulations1591 pressure1648 difficulty1667 hell to pay1758 dree1791 trial and tribulation1792 Queer Street1811 Sturm und Drang1857 a thin time1924 shit1929 crap1932 shtook1936 the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > perplexity, bewilderment > [noun] mingingOE riddleOE cumbermentc1300 willa1325 encumbrancec1330 were1338 perplexitya1393 discomfiturea1425 cumbrancec1460 confuse1483 proplexity1487 perplexion?c1500 amazedness?1520 amazement1553 subversion1558 amaze?1560 perplexednessa1586 confusedness1587 puzzle1599 confusion1600 mizmaze1604 discomfita1616 embarras1627 obfuscation1628 mystery1629 confoundedness1641 puzzledness1662 confuseness1710 puzzlement1731 puzzledom1748 embarrassment1751 puzzleation1767 bepuzzlement1806 conjecture1815 mystification1817 bewilderment1819 perplexment1826 fuddle1827 wilderment1830 discomforture1832 head-scratching1832 baffle1843 posement1850 muddlement1857 turbidity1868 fogging1878 bemuddlement1884 harl1889 befuddlement1905 turbidness1906 wuzziness1942 perplexability1999 c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 5509 Þe douke Otus..His gret encumbraunce him telde. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xviii. 265 (Wright's text) Care & encombraunce is comen to vs alle. c1430 Syr Gener. (Roxb.) 2657 So I me drede..To haue som grete encomberaunce. 1509 J. Fisher Mornynge Remembraunce Countesse of Rychemonde (de Worde) sig. Biv A lyfe voyde of all sorow & encombraunce. 1559 Certayne Serm. (new ed.) Fear of Death iii, in J. Griffiths Two Bks. Homilies (1859) i. 103 The great encombrance which our spirit hath by this sinful flesh. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > attraction, allurement, or enticement > [noun] > temptation > satanic temptation encumbermentc1330 temptation1340 encumbrancea1500 encumber1546 a1500 (?c1450) Merlin i. 5 Wyte ye well that this is the encombraunce of the deuell. 2. concrete. That which encumbers; a burden, impediment, ‘dead weight’; a useless addition; in stronger sense, an annoyance, trouble. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > [noun] > encumberment > that which or one who encumberc1330 cumberc1425 cumbererc1450 encumbrance1535 encumbry1546 pesterance1548 burdener1552 pester1569 cloyance1593 encumberment1600 impedimenta1600 pesterer1611 baggage1612 luggage1614 cumbrance1645 embarrassment1676 downdraughta1681 hamperera1837 cumberment1840 cloyer1842 1535 Stat. 27 Hen. VIII c. 3 Which..shall be a great incumberance to all such the Kinges subiectes. 1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie ii. 8 The incomberaunces are..so great as it would bee vnpossible for vs to ouercome them if God assisted vs not. 1659 J. Milton Considerations touching Hirelings 95 To hire incumbents or rather incumbrances, for life-time. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson i. i. 11 This incumbrance of a convoy gave us some uneasiness. 1764 R. Burn Hist. Poor Laws 172 Housekeepers will be freed from the intolerable incumbrance of beggars at their doors. 1833 I. Taylor Fanaticism ii. 35 Malign dispositions and vindictive habits are..miserable encumbrances of the mind. 1851 ‘L. Mariotti’ Italy in 1848 iv. 234 The great mass of volunteers, especially Lombards, were looked upon as a mere encumbrance. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. §27. 196 Divesting my limbs of every encumbrance. 3. A person dependent on another for support; esp. in phrase without encumbrance = ‘having no children’. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > retainer or follower > [noun] > dependant spear1539 dependerc1565 dependant1598 pensionnaire1604 feedera1616 reliant1665 encumbrance1742 to-fall1822 loaf-eater1844 1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews II. iv. ii. 182 I will have no more Incumbrances brought on us. View more context for this quotation 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 165. §4. 148 Left the younger sons encumbrances on the eldest. 1833 H. Martineau Three Ages iii. 109 The widow..may advertise herself as ‘without incumbrance’, to undertake any situation. 1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 28 Nov. 10 Coachmen..rarely have children, or, as they say..incumbrances. 4. Law. A burden on property: ‘A claim, lien, liability attached to property; as a mortgage, a registered judgment, etc.’ (Wharton). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > indebtedness > [noun] > encumbrance or mortgage on property mortgagec1450 encumbrancy1554 engagement1611 encumbrance1629 clag1697 1629 Vse of Law 32 in J. Doddridge Lawyers Light These acts are collaterall encombrances. 1642 tr. J. Perkins Profitable Bk. iv. §269. 120 He hath this Land without encombrance of Action. 1658 H. Slingsby Diary (1836) 200 That my ancient and lineally descended estate, might without incumbrance fall upon you my elder son. 1770 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xl. 108 You accepted the succession with all its incumbrances. 1827 J. Kent Comm. Amer. Law II. xxxix. 378 If a vendor, knowing of an incumbrance upon an estate, etc. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.c1330 |
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