单词 | omening |
释义 | † omeningn. Obsolete. A foreboding, a prognostication; the action of predicting bad luck. Also as the second element in compounds, as ill-omening (cf. ill-omened adj.). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > premonition, presentiment > [noun] > instance of boding1297 pricking of (also in) one's thumbsa1398 sense1549 presagition?c1550 forefeeling1551 aboding1579 bode1587 foresignification1592 presage1597 prevention1601 bodement1642 presentiment1663 forebodea1680 forebodement1755 omening1796 bodeword1832 forefeel1839 hunch1904 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > an omen, sign, portent > [noun] > of evil warningc1325 portent1562 urchin showa1616 urchin blast1637 menetekel1649 omening1796 mene mene tekel1840 fate1850 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > an omen, sign, portent > [noun] > act or action tokeningc888 omination1589 portending1590 portention1617 portendment1626 portendance1644 augury1654 preomination1660 omening1796 1796 S. T. Coleridge Let. 4 July in Biogr. Lit. (1847) II. 369 I was afraid to give way to the omenings of my heart. 1807 J. Grahame Poems II. v. iii. 188 You are of late so given to omening. 1823 W. Scott Peveril I. ii. 39 These evil omenings do but point out conclusions..most unlikely to come to pass. 1850 W. Wordsworth Prelude vi. 149 The censures, and ill-omening of those To whom my worldly interests were dear. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < |
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