Obstruct vs Umbeset - What's the difference?
obstruct | umbeset |
To block or fill (a passage) with obstacles or an obstacle. See Synonyms at block.
To impede, retard, or interfere with; hinder: obstructed my progress.
To get in the way of so as to hide from sight.
(obsolete, or, dialectal, chiefly, Scotland) To block, obstruct; act detrimentally toward.
*1828 , John Spalding, The history of the troubles and memorable transactions in Scotland :
* 1891 , William Robertson, Historic Ayrshire , volume 1,
* 1922 , J. Maitland Thomson, The Public Records of Scotland , Maclehose, Jackson and co.,
* 1972' (originally '''1901 ), William Baird, ''General Wauchope , Books for Libraries Press,
(obsolete, or, dialectal, chiefly, Scotland) To overwhelm; cover completely.
* 1885 , John Humberger, The Conquest and Triumph of Divine Wisdom and Love in Predestination , J. L. Traiger,
* 1952 , Walter Milton, The Goad of Love , Faber & Faber,
* 1971 , Richard Rolle, The Fire of Love , CCEL,
As verbs the difference between obstruct and umbeset
is that obstruct is to block or fill (a passage) with obstacles or an obstacle. See Synonyms at block while umbeset is to block, obstruct; act detrimentally toward.obstruct
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- The Lord Gordon ships with some friends. Monro umbesets his way; yet he escapes, ignorant of Monro's devyse.
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- to underly the law at the lext Justice-aire of Renfrew, for umbesetting the high-way, by way of Murder;
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- that king on one occasion, April 1535, having to grant a letter of protection in favour of him ‘and his wife and bairns’ against Sir Patrick Hepburn of Wauchtonne and thirty-four others for ‘umbesetting the highway for his slaughter.’
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- The Opponents Umbeset with Trickery.
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- But soothly, of sithes the more I am umbeset with anguish of heart, and destitute of all men’s comfort, the more favourable and godly I find her to me.
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- Certainly a good soul umbeset with many diseases, and noyed with the heat of temptation, can not feel the sweetness of God’s love as it is in itself;