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forebode, v.|fɔəˈbəʊd|
[f. fore- prefix + bode v.]
1. trans. To announce beforehand, predict, prognosticate.
1664Butler Hud. ii. iii. 172 Do not our great Reformers use This Sidrophel to fore-boad News. 1709Steele Tatler No. 30 ⁋5 To Morrow will be a Day of Battle, and something forebodes in my Breast that I shall fall in it. 1816J. Wilson City of Plague iii. i, Then many heard..a voice foreboding woe. 1879Dixon Windsor I. xxvi. 265 Old men foreboded evil days to come.
b. Of things: To betoken, portend.
1656Cowley Pindaric Odes, Isa. xxxiv. v, Though no new Ills can be foreboded there. 1718Freethinker No. 62 ⁋7 Palpitations of the Heart..foreboded the Infidelity of a Friend. 1780Cowper Progr. Err. 604 Long flights forebode a fall. 1868E. Edwards Raleigh I. xiii. 254 The Earl's administration of Irish affairs foreboded at its outset the issue.
2. To feel a secret premonition of, have a presentiment of (usually evil); to anticipate, to apprehend beforehand. Const. simple obj. or subord. clause
1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 235 You see the dangers and injuries I indure in this my journy, and my minde for⁓bodeth greater to ensue. 1677A. Horneck Gt. Law Consid. v. (1704) 271 An evil conscience, which foreboded an all⁓revenging arm. 1725Pope Odyss. ix. 248 My soul fore⁓boded I should find the bower Of some fell monster. 1793Ld. Sheffield in Ld. Auckland's Corr. (1862) III. 118, I foreboded mischief the moment I heard of its division. 1848Dickens Dombey 341 Stragglers..foreboding that their misery there would be but as a drop of water in the sea. 1895M. Corelli Sorrows Satan 321 Neither to regret the past nor forbode the future.
b. intr. or absol. To conjecture, forecast.
1711Addison Spect. No. 7 ⁋4 One of these Antiquated Sibyls, that forebodes and prophesies from one end of the Year to the other. 1782Cowper Gilpin 166 And if I well forebode, My hat and wig will soon be here. 1850Hawthorne Scarlet L. x. (1892) 161 There can be, if I forebode aright, no power short of the Divine mercy, to disclose [etc.].
Hence foreˈboded ppl. a. Also † forebode n., foreˈbodement, a foreboding.
a1679T. Goodwin Wks. II. iv. 72 There is upon many forebodes..one great Fate to come upon the Churches of Christ. 1755Johnson, Presagement, forebodement, presension. 1853M. Arnold Poems, World's Triumphs, Thy foreboded homage. 1860Adler Fauriel's Prov. Poetry xi. 234 He was wont to tremble at every forebodement. |