| 释义 |
bodement|ˈbəʊdmənt|
[f. bode v.1 + -ment (Romanic suffix).]
1. An omen, augury, presage.
1605Shakes. Macb. iv. i. 96 Who can impresse the Forrest, bid the Tree Vnfixe his earth-bound Root? Sweet boadments, good. 1613Bp. Hall Holy Panegyr. 61 It was a iust bodement of his future greatnesse.
2. Foreboding, presentiment.
1642Life G. Villiers in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) V. 321 Whether he had never any secret bodements in his mind? 1820H. Coleridge Poems II. 303 Bodements sweet of immortality.
†3. Signification. Obs. rare.
1658W. Burton Itin. Anton. 200 Faustinus in the Latine..having the bodement or signification of felicity, or favour.
4. Prophecy, prediction, prognostication.
1826Miss Mitford Village Ser. ii. (1863) 368 The blessed sun himself may have been rash enough to contradict her bodements. 1833Coleridge Poems II. 367 Her deep prophetic bodements. |