Forebode
Pronunciation : Fore*bode"
Part of Speech : v.
Etymology : [AS. forebodian; fore + bodian to announce. See Bode v. t.]
Definition : 1. To foretell.
2. To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly. His heart forebodes a mystery. Tennyson. Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation, as the certain consequence of C?sar's death. Middleton. I have a sort of foreboding about him. H. James.
Syn. -- To foretell; predict; prognosticate; augur; presage; portend; betoken.
t. [imp. & p. p. Foreboded; p. pr. & vb. n. Foreboding.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
Pronunciation : Fore*bode"
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : Defn: To fortell; to presage; to augur. If I forebode aright. Hawthorne.
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Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
Pronunciation : Fore*bode"
Part of Speech : n.
Definition : Defn: Prognostication; presage. [Obs.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913