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▪ I. abode|əˈbəʊd| past tense of abide. ▪ II. abode, n.1|əˈbəʊd| Forms: 1–3 abád, 3–5 abod, 4–7 abood, 5 aboode, 6 aboade, 6–7 aboad, 5– abode. Northern 3–6 abade, 5–7 abaid(e. [vbl. n. of abide, with same stem-vowel as the pa. tense; cf. ride, rode, road.] †1. The action of waiting; delay. esp. in phrase without abode, without delay, immediately. Obs.
a1250Juliana (Bodl. MS.) 73 A! stalewurðe men doð hire biliue to-deað buten abade. 1314Guy Warw. 46 Thurch the bodi his swerd glod Ded he fel withouten abod. 1375Barbour Bruce i. 142 He buskyt hym, but mar abad. c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 107 And right anoon, withoute eny abood His baner he desplayeth. c1430Lydgate Bochas (1554) I. xv. 31 Whateuer he sayd, as longeth to Echo, Without abode, she sayd the same also. 1485Trevisa Higden (1527) I. xxxviii. 406 And made no more abood But ran anone into the wood. c1500Lancelot of the Laik (1865) 3259 Kyng clamedyus makith non abaid. 1577Holinshed Chron. III. 918/1 Without anie abode he entered the barge. 1596Shakes. Merch. V. ii. vi. 21 Sweete friends, your patience for my long abode, Not I, but my affairs haue made you wait. †2. A temporary remaining; a stay. Obs.
c1384Chaucer H. Fame iii. 942 Of restes, of labour, of viages, Of abood, of deeth, of lyfe. c1460Fortescue Abs. & Lim. Mon. (1714) 49 Their long or schorte Abode. 1599Hakluyt Voyages II. i. 143 In any of their abodes or passages by sea or land. 1607Hieron Wks. I. 452 Wee are wont to describe a short abood by lodging in an inne. 1651Hobbes Leviathan iii. xli. 263 There are two parts of our Saviour's Office during his aboad upon the Earth. 1749Fielding Tom Jones vi. ix. 76 (1840) He waxeth wroth at your abode here. †3. Used by Puttenham for the rhetorical practice of ‘dwelling upon a point.’ Obs.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie 240 (1869) The perswader..should dwell vpon that point longer then vpon any other, and as it were to make his chief aboad thereupon, for which cause I name him the figure of aboad, according to the Latine name. 4. Habitual residence, dwelling.
1576Lambarde Peramb. Kent 201 (1826) During his aboade in Kent, he had so incroched upon the lands. 1591Shakes. 1 Hen. VI, v. iv. 88 The Countrey where you make abode. 1611Bible John xiv. 23 We will come unto him, and make our abode with him. 1718Pope Iliad v. 101 The brave Dolopian's mighty line, Who near adored Scamander made abode. 1860R. A. Vaughan Ho. w. Mystics (ed. 2) I. 206 To dwell on the union of Christians with Christ; on His abode in us, and our abiding in Him. 5. An abiding-place, a dwelling-place, place of ordinary habitation; house or home. abode of love: see Agapemone; (of) no fixed abode: a conventional phr. used of a person without a settled habitation.
1614Raleigh Hist. World ii. 499 Her aboad was about the River Liris. 1633G. Herbert Temple 167, Ps. xxiii. 4 In deaths shadie black abode Well may I walk. 1667Milton P.L. iii. 734 That spot to which I point is Paradise, Adam's abode. 1767Fordyce Serm. to Yng. Wom. II. xii. 207 Visits to the abodes of misfortune and pain. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 320 He troubled himself little about decorating his abode.
1852Roget's Thes. 223/1 Abode of love, agapemone. 1931G. B. Shaw Let. 24 Nov. in To a Young Actress (1960) 156 If the customer wants to decorate a bedroom in an Abode of Love he (or she) may require something quite different from the keeper of a boarding house in Tunbridge Wells.
1883Times 9 Jan. 4/6 At the Guildhall, yesterday, Charles M'Manes, who said he was a labourer but had no fixed abode, was charged on remand. 1922Joyce Ulysses 447 Henry Flower. No fixed abode. Unlawfully watching and besetting. 1962Oxford Mail 20 Jan. 3/7 Two labourers of no fixed abode, who pleaded ‘Guilty’ to robbing―with violence at Stone. ▪ III. † abode, n.2 Obs. [f. a-bede v., OE. abeód-an, pa. pple. a-boden, ‘to announce’; on the analogy of the simple n. bode, and its relation to the primitive beódan, boden: see next word.] An announcement, prediction, prognostication.
c1600Chapman Iliad (1857) xiii. 146 If even the best of Gods, High thund'ring Juno's husband, stirs my spirit with true abodes. 1667Decay of Chr. Piety §5. 196 That great unsensibleness many of us shew of what others groan under, is a very ominous abode. 1696J. Ovington Voyage to Surat A superstitious fancy that mending old clothes in a morning is of very ill abode. ▪ IV. † abode, v. Obs. 6–7 also aboad(e. [f. abode n.2, on the analogy of the simple vb. bode (OE. bodian) f. the n. bode (OE. bod). OE. had the primitive vb. beódan, ME. bede, pa. pple. boden, the n. bod, ME. bode, and its deriv. vb. bod-ian, mod.E. to bode; also the deriv. vb. abeódan, ME. abede, pa. pple. aboden; whence at a later time the prec. n. and this vb.] 1. trans. To presage, prognosticate, be ominous of, bode, forebode.
1593Shakes. 3 Hen. VI, v. vi. 45 The Owle shriek'd at thy birth, an euill signe, The Night-Crow cry'de, aboding lucklesse time. 1603― Hen. VIII, i. i. 93 This tempest Dashing the Garment of this Peace, aboaded The sodaine breach on't. 1603Greenwey Tacitus, Ann. (1622) iii. ii. 67 The which when Piso perceiued, to aboade his vtter destruction. 1665J. Spencer Prodigies 83 Lest it should abode the running of that Vessel upon rocks. 2. intr. To be ominous.
1659Hammond On Psalm lix. 5 This abodes most sadly to Saul at this time. 1673Lady's Calling ii. §4. 16. 30 No night raven or screech-owl can abode half so dismally as these domestic birds of prey. |