forebodev.
/fəˈbəʊd/, /fɔːˈbəʊd/, U.S. /fɔrˈboʊd/ 1.
a. transitive. To announce beforehand, predict, prognosticate.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > predict, foretell [verb (transitive)]
fore-sayc900
bodeOE
before-sayOE
before-tella1382
foretella1400
prognostica1400
tella1400
prenosticate?a1475
prenostic1477
prognosticatec1487
forespeak1489
prognostify1495
foreshow1561
prenunce1563
presage1569
boden1573
forewarn1582
predict1590
forehalsen1594
foresignify1597
prognosticon1602
predivine1607
forespell1611
predicate1623
prenuntiate1623
preadmonish1644
forebode1664
prediction1665
prenotea1711
bespeak1721
pre-announce1793
prophesize1848
to call for ——1895
pick1909
1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. iii. 144 Do not our great Reformers use This Sidrophel to foreboad News?
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 30. ⁋5 To Morrow will be a Day of Battle, and something forebodes in my Breast that I shall fall in it.
1816 J. Wilson City of Plague iii. i Then many heard..a voice foreboding woe.
1879 W. H. Dixon Royal Windsor I. xxvi. 265 Old men foreboded evil days to come.
b. Of things: To betoken, portend.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prefiguration > prefigure [verb (transitive)]
forecomea1300
to say beforec1384
signifyc1384
pretendc1425
prefigurec1429
preostendc1429
prefigurate1530
prefigurate1530
adumbrate1537
promise1556
premonstrate1562
foresignify1565
presignify1570
shadow1574
foreshadow1577
presage1583
fore-run1590
presign1590
fore-read1591
figure1595
type forth, out1596
fore-point1601
foreshow1601
prophesy1608
foretella1616
foretypea1618
forebode1656
harbingera1657
pretypify1658
pretype1659
forespeak1667
to figure out1721
forecast1883
favour1887
precourse1888
precursea1892
1656 A. Cowley Isaiah XXXIV in Pindaric Odes xxxiv. v Though no new Ills can be foreboded there.
1718 Free-thinker No. 52. 1 Palpitations of the Heart..foreboded the Infidelity of a Friend.
1780 W. Cowper Progress of Error 604 Long flights forebode a fall.
1868 E. Edwards Life Sir W. Ralegh I. xiii. 254 The Earl's administration of Irish affairs foreboded at its outset the issue.
2.
a. To feel a secret premonition of, have a presentiment of (usually evil); to anticipate, to apprehend beforehand. Const. simple object or subordinate clause
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the mind > emotion > fear > apprehension > be apprehensive [verb (transitive)] > forebode
forebode1603
misbode1626
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > premonition, presentiment > have a presentiment of [verb (transitive)] > presage
fore-point1590
foredoom1599
forebode1603
1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 235 You see the dangers and injuries I endure in this my journey, and my mind forbodeth greater to ensue.
1677 A. Horneck Great Law Consideration (1704) v. 271 An evil conscience, which foreboded an all~revenging arm.
1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey II. ix. 248 My soul foreboded I should find the bow'r Of some fell monster.
1793 Ld. Sheffield in Ld. Auckland's Corr. (1862) III. 118 I foreboded mischief the moment I heard of its division.
1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xxxiii. 341 Stragglers..foreboding that their misery there would be but as a drop of water in the sea.
1895 ‘M. Corelli’ Sorrows Satan 321 Neither to regret the past nor forbode the future.
b. intransitive or absol. To conjecture, forecast.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > anticipation, forecast > anticipate, forecast [verb (intransitive)]
castc1384
forecasta1513
forebode1711
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 7. ¶4 One of these Antiquated Sibyls that forebodes and prophesies from one end of the Year to the other.
1782 W. Cowper John Gilpin 166 And if I well forebode, My hat and wig will soon be here.
1850 N. Hawthorne Scarlet Let. x. 157 There can be, if I forebode aright, no power, short of the Divine mercy, to disclose [etc.].
Derivatives
foreˈboded adj.
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1853 M. Arnold Poems (new ed.) 226 Thy foreboded homage.
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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
a1680 T. Goodwin Wks. (1683) II. iv. 72 There is upon many forebodes..one great Fate to come upon the Churches of Christ.
foreˈbodement n. Obsolete a foreboding.
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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
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. at Presagement Forebodement, presension.
1860 G. J. Adler tr. C. C. Fauriel Hist. Provençal Poetry xi. 234 He was wont to tremble at every forebodement.
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