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▪ I. bode, n.1|bəʊd|
[Com. Teut.: OE. boda = OFris. boda, OS. bodo (MDu. and Du. bode), OHG. boto (MHG. and mod.G. bote), ON. boði:—OTeut. *bodon-, f. bod- stem of beud-an: see next.]
One who makes an announcement; a herald, a messenger. Obs. from 12th c., but recently affected by some writers on OE. history.
c888K. ælfred Boeth. xxxvi. i, Þu þe eart boda and forrynel ðæs soþan leohter. c1175Cott. Hom. 219 Angeli (boden), archangeli (hahboden). 1613R. C. Table Alph. (ed. 3), Bode, a messenger. 1848Lytton Harold iii. i. 49 Fast..went the bodes and riders of the Earl. 1872E. Robertson Hist. Ess. 114 The Beadle..the Bode or messenger of the Court. 1880Blackw. Mag. Mar. 344 Their bodes brought the news of the landing at Pevensey.
▪ II. bode, n.2|bəʊd|
Also 1–4 bod, 6 boad.
[Com. Teut.: OE. bod (chiefly northern for ᵹebod; cf. bebod), neuter = OFris. bod, OS. gibod (Du. gebod), OHG. gabot, (mod.G. gebot, bot), ON. boð (Sw., Da. bud):—OTeut. *gabodo(m, f. bod- pa. ppl. stem of beudan to offer, etc., see bid v.]
†1. Command, order, behest. Obs.
a1000Hymns vii. 109 (Gr.) We..þíne bodu bræcon. c1205Lay. 30121 Þat bod wes ihalden. c1340Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 852 Þere were boun at his bode burnez in-noȝe.
†2. Message, tidings. Obs.
c1205Lay. 27999 He brohte boden swiðe gode. c1330Arth. & Merl. 2046 A bod com fram the sarrazin. c1450Lonelich Grail xliv. 340 Thanne cam he to þe messengers..and of here bode ȝaf hem answeryng. 1637Rutherford Lett. clxxvii. (1862) I. 419 His bode is ever welcome to me, be what it will.
†3. Premonition, omen, augury. Obs.
c1374Chaucer Parl. Foules 343 The owl eke, that of death the bode ybringeth. 1613Purchas Pilgr. I. iii. xvii. 285 It was a good bode and happie presage. 1632Shirley Love in Maze Epil., If no fate Have an unlucky bode.
4. Presentiment, foreboding. arch.
1587Fleming Contn. Holinshed III. 1338/1 With better boad of lucke and lot, receive thou now the same. 1857Heavysege Saul (1869) 214 Down black bodes, false flies.
5. An offer of a price, a bid. Still in north. dial.
c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 213 Þe beggere [= buyer] ecneð his bode. 1394P. Pl. Crede 716 [Friars] bene at lone and at bode As burgeses vsithe. 1790Burns Lett. 62, I refused fifty-five shillings for her, which was the highest bode I could squeeze. 1816Scott Antiq. xxxix, ‘Ye should never tak a fish-wife's first bode.’ 1853Reade C. Johnstone 63 Half-a-crown was his first bode.
†6. ? Prayer, petition. Obs. cf. bede.
c1175Lamb. Hom. 65 Wenne scal þos bode [v.r. beode] us god don.
▪ III. † bode, n.3 Obs.
Forms: 3–4 bod, 4–6 bode; north. 4–5 bad, 4–6 bade, (4 baide, 6 beed).
[Not found in OE., and either formed at a later time on bide, on the analogy of abide, abode, or an aphetic form of abode itself. In later use chiefly Sc., in form bade, baid.]
Biding, tarrying, waiting, delay. but bode: without delay.
a1300Cursor M. 2485 An auter [abram] raised wit-outen bad. Ibid. 2535 Wit-outen baide. c1350Will. Palerne 149 Boute bod he braydes to þe quene. 1375Barbour Bruce vi. 403 [He] gert arme his men..forouten baid. c1440Bone Flor. 1018 Than was there no lenger bode. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. I. 213 He dressit him..But ony baid. 1593Peele Chron. Edw. I (1874) 384 Make thou thy bode In resolution to revenge these wrongs.
▪ IV. † bode, n.4 Obs.
[Origin and standing uncertain: see note in Cath. Angl.]
A pole or perch.
1483Cath. Angl. 36 A Bode; pola.
▪ V. bode, v.1|bəʊd|
Forms: 1 bodiᵹ(e)an, 1–2 bodian, 2–4 bodien, 4, 7 boden, 6–7 boad(e, 4– bode.
[OE. bodian, f. boda messenger; cf. ON. boða of same meaning.]
†1. trans. To announce, proclaim, preach. Obs.
a1000Hymns x. 23 (Gr.) Bododon englas, Þæt acenned wæs Crist on eorðan. c1000Ags. Gosp. Matt. xxiv. 14 Þis godspel byð bodod [c 1160 Hatton G. boded] ofer ealle eorðan. a1225Leg. Kath. 1480 Men schal beoden & bodien hit ouer al.
†b. absol. To preach (the gospel). Obs.
c1000Ags. Gosp. Matt. iv. 17 Syððan ongan se Hæland bodian, and cweðan, Doð dæd-bote. Ibid. Mark v. 20 He ongan bodiᵹean [c 1160 Hatton G. bodiᵹen] on decapolim. c1175Lamb. Hom. 93 [Hi] bodeden mid ane speche.
†2. To proclaim authoritatively, decree, order, bid, command (a person) that. Obs.
c1205Lay. 23730 Leteð blawen bemen and bodien mine monnen þat æuer ælc god mon to niht wakien. a1225St. Marher. 17, I bidde ant bodie þat tu wurche mi wil.
3. To announce beforehand, foretell, predict, prognosticate, presage. arch.
a1000Elene 1141 (Gr.) Þæt wæs oft bodod feor ær beforan fram fruman worulde. c1175Cott. Hom. 235 Hi..bodeden ures hlafordes tocyme. a1250Owl & Night. 1155 Other thu bodes huses brune..Other thu bodes cualm of orve. 1676Bulloker, Bode, to foretel, or prognosticate. 1715Pope Iliad i. 132 Prophet of plagues, for ever boding ill! 1771Franklin Autobiog. Wks. 1840 I. 79 There are croakers in every country, always boding its ruin.
4. Of things: To give promise of, be indicative of, betoken, portend.
1387Trevisa Higden (1865) II. 293 It bodid grete merite and vertue. 1483Cath. Angl. 36 To Bode, portendere. 1602Shakes. Ham. i. i. 69 This boades some strange erruption to our State. 1650R. Stapylton Strada's Low-C. Warres iii. 60 All things seemed to boad a Civill warre. 1822Byron Werner ii. i. 248 So much haste bodes Right little speed. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. §5. 37 That lingering rosy hue which bodes good weather.
b. esp. (with well or ill) To give good or bad promise, to augur well or ill.
a1700Dryden (J.), Whatever now The omen proved, it boded well to you. 1832Whately Let. in Life (1866) I. 159, I can see nothing that bodes well to the Church Establishment: I fear its days are numbered. 1870Disraeli Lothair lxxxiv. 454 Some think this bodes ill for the Church.
†c. To signify, typify. Obs.
1387Trevisa Higden Rolls Ser. III. 13 Solomon's temple, bodede holy chirche [in figura præsentis ecclesiæ].
5. To have a presentiment of; to forebode (generally evil).
1740Richardson Pamela (1824) I. 80 My presaging mind bodes horrid mischiefs. 1850Blackie æschylus II. 229 And my soul, dark-stirred with the prophet's mood, Bodes nothing good.
▪ VI. bode, v.2 Sc.
[prob. f. bode n.2 5 = to make a ‘bode’.]
trans. To bid for, make an offer for.
Scotch Adage, Bode a robe and wear it, Bode a poke and bear it.
▪ VII. bode
early var. of boðe, booth, and of boden.
▪ VIII. bode
= behoved, pa. tense of bus v. |