Category:Forebode

Fore*bode", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Foreboded; p. pr. & vb. n. Foreboding.] Etym: [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 Cæsar's death. Middleton. I have a sort of foreboding about him. H. James.

Syn. -- To foretell; predict; prognosticate; augur; presage; portend; betoken.

forebode Fore*bode", v. i.

Defn: To fortell; to presage; to augur. If I forebode aright. Hawthorne.

forebode Fore*bode", n.

Defn: Prognostication; presage. [Obs.]