The state banks, already hampered by maladministration, were encumbered by huge quantities of real estate which had been taken over as compensation for unredeemed mortgages.
You may even run the risk of injury during your workout if you're encumbered by uncomfortable attire.
So why blow the effort by throwing a heavy leather grandma bag over your shoulder when the gentle strap of a wristlet hanging off your forearm says, "I'm too free to be encumbered by the cares of the world."
But at this time he was encumbered with the hazy doctrine of analogies, which, if it did not act to his detriment, was assuredly of no service to him.
This is the last of the buildings and rubbish which encumbered the temple before the expropriation and clearances by the Service des Antiquites began in 1885.