Fore*bode" , n. Prognostication; presage. [Obs.]
Fore*bode" , v. i. To foretell; to presage; to augur.
If
I forebode aright.
Hawthorne.
Fore*bode" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Foreboded;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Foreboding.]
[AS.
forebodian; fore + bodian to announce. See Bode v. t.] 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 Cæsar's death.
Middleton.
I have a sort of foreboding about him.
H. James.
Syn. -- To foretell; predict; prognosticate; augur; presage; portend; betoken.
Hear it pronounced