ppl. a. Obs.; also 4 acombred, 5–6 accombred. [f. prec. + -ED.] Overwhelmed, embarrassed, entangled, encumbered.
c. 1300. K. Alis., 8025. Acombred buth theo lymes alle.
c. 1386. Chaucer, C. T. Prol., 508 (Ellesm. & Hengw.). He sette nat his benefice to hyre And leet his sheepe encombred in the myre [other MSS. acombred, acumbret, acumbrede].
1520–41. Wyatt, Poet. Wks. (1861), 147. As doth th’ accumbred sprite the thoughtful throes discover, Of fierce delight, of fervent love, that in our hearts we cover.
1562. Sternh. & H., Ps. cxliii. 4 (1619). Within me in perplexitie Was mine accombred sprite.
1577–87. Holinshed, Chron., III. 907/2. My conscience was incontinentlie accombred, vexed, and disquieted.
