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▪ I. boding, vbl. n.|ˈbəʊdɪŋ|
[f. bode v.1 + -ing1.]
†1. Annunciation, proclamation, preaching. Obs.
c1000Ags. Gosp. Matt. xii. 41 Hiᵹ dydon dædbote on Ionas bodunge. c1160Hatton G. ibid., Bodiunge. c1175Lamb. Hom. 89 Godspelles bodunge.
2. Premonition, presentiment; concr. prognostic, omen, portent.
1297R. Glouc. 428 Þe taylede sterre, þat gret bodynge ys. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xviii. i. (1495) 737 Beestes haue redynesse of wytte in bodynge of chaungynge of tyme and wedders. 1555Harpsfield Divorce Hen. VIII (1878) 280 A sorrowful boding of the..mischief that..did afterward chance. 1768Goldsm. Good-n. Man v. i, I have had some boding of it these ten days. 1810Wordsw. Scenery Lakes (1823) 115 A Shepherd accustomed to watch all mountain bodings.
3. Prediction, prophecy (generally of evil).
1668Temple Let. Wks. 1731 II. 169 Too much entertained with ill Bodings and Complaints. 1817Coleridge Sibyl. Leaves (1862) 188 Better fate be thine And mock my boding! 1833H. Martineau Brooke F. iv. 54 Norton..would listen to no evil bodings.
▪ II. boding, ppl. a.|ˈbəʊdɪŋ|
[f. bode v.1 + -ing2.]
That bodes; presaging, portending, ominous.
1593Shakes. Ven. & Ad. 647 My boding heart pants, beats, and takes no rest. 1594― Rich. III, v. iii. 228 The sweetest sleepe, And fairest boading Dreames. 1702Rowe Amb. Step-Moth. i. i. 434 Spight of my boding fears. a1771Gray Poems (1775) 53 No boding Maid of skill divine Art thou. 1785Cowper Task i. 205 The boding owl That hails the rising moon. 1824W. Irving T. Trav. II. 257 Listening to the boding cry of the tree toad.
Hence ˈbodingly adv.
1811Shelley St. Irvyne i, They bodingly presag'd destruction and woe. 1839Lowell Summ. Storm Poet. Wks. (1879) 81 All is so bodingly still. 1866Motley Dutch Rep. iv. iv. 619 Sorrowfully and bodingly Mansfeld withdrew to consult again. |