单词 | aboding |
释义 | abodingn. Now rare. A foreboding, presage, presentiment. ΘΚΠ 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 1579 T. Twyne tr. Petrarch Phisicke against Fortune i. xxvii. f. 35v Present prosperitie hath oftentimes been the aboding of future calamities. 1667 T. Tomkins Inconveniencies Toleration 16 There is nothing in these fears and dreadful abodings of many good mens hearts. 1680 J. Fell Serm. Preached before House of Peers 8 This is the Comet that blazes in our Sky; and threatens Ruine and Destruction to us, beyond the abodings of Astrology. a1710 G. Bull Wks. (1846) II. 489 What strange ominous abodings and fears do many times on a sudden seize upon men of certain approaching evils. a1715 G. Burnet Select Serm. (1742) x. 159 We feel in us earnests of future rewards and punishments in the lively joy and true satisfaction we feel when we do well, and in the remorse and confusion that ill actions bring after them; these are both witnesses within us, and abodings of what is before us. 1890 ‘M. Field’ Tragic Mary v. v. 237 You do not well To take me to your sea-fort, with my clear Aboding that we go there to divide Who left it to be wedded. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021). abodingadj. Now rare. That is ominous (of a specified thing); boding, portentous. Chiefly as the second element in compounds. ΚΠ 1608 G. Chapman Conspiracie Duke of Byron iii. sig. Fv Why suffer you that ill aboding vermine, To breede so neere your bosome? ?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads x. 141 Trophies vow'd to her that sent, the good-aboding Herne. 1640 G. Abbot Whole Bk. Iob Paraphr. xxxvi. 229/1 A raine-aboding wind gives fore-knowledge of it. 1701 Partition Examin'd 28 Not to see this Danger, which is so notorious, and which is loaded with so many black aboding Circumstances, is in a manner, to pretend Darkness at Noon-day. a1711 T. Ken Psyche iv, in Wks. (1721) IV. 269 Ill-aboding Birds who hate the Day. 1894 Lowell (Mass.) Daily Sun 18 Aug. 5/3 Would my terrors vanish if I awoke in that unfamiliar, ill aboding darkness? 1972 V. Iremonger Horan's Field 52 Lady I have icily waited for, whom I have known By these aboding mountains, this lovely glen. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1579adj.1608 |
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