bodingn.
/ˈbəʊdɪŋ/ΘΚΠ
society > faith > worship > preaching > [noun]
bodingc1000
preachinga1300
sermoninga1300
predicationa1325
preachmentc1330
prophesyingc1520
pulpitingc1540
doctrine1560
prophesying1574
prophecy1577
desk1581
pulpitry1606
predicancy1627
prophecy1631
sermonizing1635
pulpitizing1651
predicament1765
preachery1828
sermonology1854
parsonizing1864
kerygma1889
society > communication > information > announcing or proclaiming > [noun]
bodingc1000
proclamationa1325
announcingc1450
pronunciationc1455
nunciationc1460
proclaim1461
announcement1512
blazoning1533
denouncement1544
denunciation1548
denouncing1552
annunciation1563
blazing1563
indiction1583
pronouncement1593
exclamation1602
predication1618
pronounce1641
preconization1650
predicature1653
denounce1704
preconizance1719
annunciatinga1729
annonce1775
announce1779
blazonment1876
c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xii. 41 Hig dydon dædbote on Ionas bodunge.
c1160 Hatton G. Matt. xii. 41 Bodiunge.
c1175 Lamb. Hom. 89 Godspelles bodunge.
2. Premonition, presentiment; concrete prognostic, omen, portent.
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]
foretokenc888
tokeningc888
beaconc950
token971
handsela1200
boding1297
wonder1297
bodec1374
signa1387
foreboding1387
prenostica1393
prognosticc1425
prophetc1430
prognostication?a1439
ostentationa1450
prenostication?a1450
prodigy?a1450
augurationc1450
preparative1460
prenosticate?a1475
prenosticative?a1475
prodige1482
prenosticature1490
tokener1513
weird1513
show token1535
luck1538
prognosticate1541
preamble1548
proffer1548
presagition?c1550
foreshower1555
presage1560
portent1562
ostent1570
presagie1581
omen1582
presagement1586
luck sign1587
augury1588
prognosticon1588
forerunner1589
presager1591
halfner1594
spae1596
abode1598
oss1600
assign1601
augur1603
bodement1613
predictiona1616
prognosticala1618
bespeaker1624
portender1635
pre-indicant1659
foreshadow1834
boder1846
prognosticant1880
sky sign1880
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. 428 Þe taylede sterre, þat gret bodynge ys.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. i. 1095 Þey [sc. vnresonable bestes] haueþ redynesse of witte in..bodyng of chaungyng of tyme and wedres.
a1575 N. Harpsfield Treat. Divorce Henry VIII (1878) (modernized text) 280 A sorrowful boding of the..mischief that..did afterward chance.
1768 O. Goldsmith Good Natur'd Man v. 71 I have had some boding of it these ten days.
1822 W. Wordsworth Scenery of Lakes (ed. 3) 134 A Shepherd accustomed to watch all mountain bodings.
3. Prediction, prophecy (generally of evil).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > [noun] > a prediction or prophecy > of evil
forebodinga1387
boding1668
1668 W. Temple Let. in Wks. (1731) II. 169 Too much entertained with ill Bodings and Complaints.
1796 S. T. Coleridge On Observing Blossom in Watchman 11 Apr. 165 Better fate be thine And mock my boding!
1833 H. Martineau Brooke & Brooke Farm (ed. 3) iv. 54 Norton..would listen to no evil bodings.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2020).
bodingadj.
/ˈbəʊdɪŋ/ That bodes; presaging, portending, ominous.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > premonition, presentiment > [adjective]
boding1594
presaging1594
presagient1650
presagious1702
presentimental1796
presentient1814
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > an omen, sign, portent > [adjective]
prognosticate?a1425
prognostical?a1450
prognostaticc1475
portentousc1487
presagiousc1487
prodigiousc1487
prodigial1548
portending1560
augural1568
presaging1592
ominous1593
boding1594
portentive1594
prognostic1603
presageful1606
prognosticous1607
ostentful1608
prognosticant1619
predictious1631
portentful1633
ominal1651
ominating1663
bodeful1813
portentious1863
1594 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis (new ed.) sig. Eijv My boding heart, pants, beats, and takes no rest.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III v. v. 181 The sweetest sleepe, and fairest boding dreames. View more context for this quotation
1702 N. Rowe Ambitious Step-mother (ed. 2) i. i. 434 Spight of my boding fears.
1768 T. Gray Descent of Odin in Poems 94 No boding Maid of skill divine Art thou.
1785 W. Cowper Task i. 205 The boding owl That hails the rising moon.
1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller II. 257 Listening to the boding cry of the tree toad.
Derivatives
ˈbodingly adv.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > premonition, presentiment > [adverb]
darkly1597
presagingly1612
forefeelingly1808
bodingly1811
presagefully1844
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > an omen, sign, portent > [adverb] > in a portentous manner, ominously
prodigiously?1550
darkly1597
portentously1656
inauspiciously1684
unauspiciouslya1797
bodingly1811
1811 P. B. Shelley St. Irvyne i. 17 They bodingly presag'd destruction and woe.
1839 J. R. Lowell Summer Storm in Poet. Wks. (1879) 81 All is so bodingly still.
1855 J. L. Motley Rise Dutch Republic III. iv. iv. 72 Sorrowfully and bodingly Mansfeld withdrew to consult again.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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