incumber

Historical Examples of incumbered

• His practice was not extensive, and he was incumbered with a wife and large family.

  Newton Forster

  Captain Frederick Marryat

• The shore is deformed with mud, and incumbered with a forest of reeds.

  Wieland; or The Transformation

  Charles Brockden Brown

• The city's bonded debt is in their hands; by them the city is taxed and incumbered.

  Elements of Debating

  Leverett S. Lyon

• We must not be incumbered with pack-mules on an expedition of this sort.

  Mr. Fortescue

  William Westall

• He found him at home, but the hall so incumbered with trunks and boxes, that there was scarce a passage to the parlour-door.

  The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless

  Eliza Haywood