|
(), 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 Csar's death. Middleton. I have a sort of foreboding about him. H. James. Syn. -- To foretell; predict; prognosticate; augur; presage; portend; betoken. Forebode" v. i.To foretell; to presage; to augur. If I forebode aright. Hawthorne. Forebode" n.Prognostication; presage. [Obs.] スポンサード リンク
|