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 Caesar's death.
Middleton.
I have a sort of foreboding about him.
H. James.
Syn. -- To foretell; predict; prognosticate; augur; presage; portend; betoken.
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Fore*bode", v. i.
To fortell; to presage; to augur.
If I forebode aright.
Hawthorne.
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Fore*bode", n.
Prognostication; presage.
[Obs.]
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