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▪ I. † forˈbode, n. Obs. exc. arch. Forms: 1–6 forbod (6 forbodd), 3–7, 9 forbode, 3, 5 forbot (5 -bote), 5–6 forbott. [OE. forbod. f. forbéodan to forbid; = Du. verbod, MHG., mod.Ger. verbot, ON. forboð.] A forbidding; a prohibition, interdiction, prohibitory ordinance. to lay in forbode: to put under prohibition, to prohibit.
a1000Pol. Laws ælfred xli, Gewitnes þæt hit þara manna forbod wære. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 11 No prest ne mai him chastien, ne mid forbode, ne mid scrifte, ne mid cursinge. a1300Cursor M. 765 (Cott.) Our lauerd in forbot has it laid. c1449Pecock Repr. iii. iii. 291 If eny oon forbode, maad in Iewis lawe to preestis, schulde binde also Cristen preestis. 1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Luke vi. 73 Why dooe ye this geare whiche it is against all gods forbod to dooe on the Sabboth daies. 1626Ainsworth Annot. Pentat. Exod. xx. 3 Gods forbode bindeth most strictly and alwayes. b. to pass, be above or beyond, God's forbode: said of anything outrageous or extravagant.
1515More K. Rich. III, in Grafton Chron. II. 826 King Richarde, whome he..had holpen, susteyned and set forward above all Gods forbode. a1529Skelton Image Hypocr. Wks. II. 425 It passeth Godes forbod That ever it should be. 1596Nashe Saffron Walden Wks. (Grosart) III. 99 He is beyond all reason, or Gods forbod, distractedly enamourd of his own beautie. 1602W. Watson Decacordon 247 Marry the course that was held by them passeth all Gods forbod: as our phrase is. c. (over) God's forbode = God forbid.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. vii. 176 Lordes forbode ellis! c1460Towneley Myst. (Surtees) 12 Over Godes forbot be to the Thank or thew to kun me. 1598Florio, Diácene, god forbid, gods forbode. 1820Scott Ivanhoe x, ‘Over God's forbode!’ said Prince John. d. A use of this phrase as an asseveration.
1575Durham Deposit. (Surtees) 303 Who toke upon hir then, with mony oothe and forbotts, that ther was never man that was fawter with hir. ▪ II. † forˈbode, v. Obs. rare. [f. prec. n.; cf. ON. forboða.] = forbid.
c1400Destr. Troy 6428 Forbode the firke þi fode for to wyn. c1475Rauf Coilȝear 746 The curagious knichtis bad haue him to hing..‘God forbot’ he said, ‘my thank war sic thing To him that succourit my lyfe!’ |