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Boded
(gcide) | Bode \Bode\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Boded; p. pr. & vb. n.
Boding.] [OE. bodien, AS. bodian to announce, tell from bod
command; akin to Icel. bo?a to announce, Sw. b[*a]da to
announce, portend. [root]89. See Bid.]
To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to
portend to presage; to foreshow.
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A raven that bodes nothing but mischief. --Goldsmith.
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Good onset bodes good end. --Spenser.
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foreboded
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Foreboded
(gcide) | Forebode \Fore*bode"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Foreboded; p. pr. &
vb. n. Foreboding.] [AS. forebodian; fore + bodian to
announce. See Bode v. t.]
1. To foretell.
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2. To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an
inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to
happen; to augur despondingly.
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His heart forebodes a mystery. --Tennyson.
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Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars
and desolation, as the certain consequence of
C[ae]sar's death. --Middleton.
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I have a sort of foreboding about him. --H. James.
Syn: To foretell; predict; prognosticate; augur; presage;
portend; betoken.
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