bodementn.
/ˈbəʊdmənt/ 1. An omen, augury, presage.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > an omen, sign, portent > [noun]
foretokenc888
tokeningc888
beaconc950
token971
handsela1200
boding1297
wonder1297
bodec1374
signa1387
foreboding1387
prenostica1393
prognosticc1425
prophetc1430
prognostication?a1439
ostentationa1450
prenostication?a1450
prodigy?a1450
augurationc1450
preparative1460
prenosticate?a1475
prenosticative?a1475
prodige1482
prenosticature1490
tokener1513
weird1513
show token1535
luck1538
prognosticate1541
preamble1548
proffer1548
presagition?c1550
foreshower1555
presage1560
portent1562
ostent1570
presagie1581
omen1582
presagement1586
luck sign1587
augury1588
prognosticon1588
forerunner1589
presager1591
halfner1594
spae1596
abode1598
oss1600
assign1601
augur1603
bodement1613
predictiona1616
prognosticala1618
bespeaker1624
portender1635
pre-indicant1659
foreshadow1834
boder1846
prognosticant1880
sky sign1880
1613 Bp. J. Hall Holy Panegyrick 61 It was a iust bodement of his future greatnesse.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iv. i. 112 Who can impresse the Forrest, bid the Tree Vnfixe his earth-bound Root? Sweet boadments, good. View more context for this quotation
2. Foreboding, presentiment.
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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
1642 Life G. Villiers in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) V. 321 Whether he had never any secret bodements in his mind?
1820 H. Coleridge Poems II. 303 Bodements sweet of immortality.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > meaning of linguistic unit > [noun]
to owe a wolda1325
meaninga1387
significationa1398
understanding1433
pretensionc1443
intellect?a1475
tendment1519
sense1530
reciprocation1604
sensing1613
denotation1614
apprehension1615
explicitness1630
sounda1631
notion1646
bodementa1657
means1656
force1709
notation1829
connotation1865
content1875
territory1875
a1657 W. Burton Comm. Antoninus his Itinerary (1658) 200 Faustinus in the Latine..having the bodement or signification of felicity, or favour.
4. Prophecy, prediction, prognostication.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > [noun]
prophecyc1330
prognosticationc1450
foresaying1548
foretelling1548
prediction1561
foresignifying1592
predict1609
prenunciation1623
bodement1826
predication1845
second-guessing1946
1826 M. R. Mitford Our Village (1863) II. 368 The blessed sun himself may have been rash enough to contradict her bodements.
1833 S. T. Coleridge Poems II. 367 Her deep prophetic bodements.
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