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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Forebode \Fore*bode"\, v. i.
To fortell; to presage; to augur.
If I forebode aright. --Hawthorne.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Forebode \Fore*bode"\, n.
Prognostication; presage. [Obs.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Forebode \Fore*bode"\, 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
C[ae]sar's death. --Middleton.
I have a sort of foreboding about him --H. James.
Syn: To foretell; predict; prognosticate; augur; presage;
portend; betoken.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
forebode
v : make a prediction about tell in advance; "Call the outcome
of an election" [syn: {predict}, {foretell}, {prognosticate},
{call}, {anticipate}, {promise}]
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