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Boding   Listen
verb
Bode  v. t.  (past & past part. boded; pres. part. boding)  To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend to presage; to foreshow. "A raven that bodes nothing but mischief." "Good onset bodes good end."



Bode  v. i.  To foreshow something; to augur. "Whatever now The omen proved, it boded well to you."
Synonyms: To forebode; foreshadow; augur; betoken.



noun
Boding  n.  A prognostic; an omen; a foreboding.



adjective
Boding  adj.  Foreshowing; presaging; ominous.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Boding" Quotes from Famous Books



... "but I have a boding spirit. It seems to me that the blessed sun himself hath shrunken, and I would I might wring the neck of yonder yelling bird!... That Englishman, that ...
— Sir Mortimer • Mary Johnston

... Omen.— N. omen, portent, presage, prognostic, augury, auspice; sign &c. (indication) 550; harbinger &c. (precursor) 64; yule candle|!. bird of ill omen; signs of the times; gathering clouds; warning &c. 668. prefigurement &c. 511. Adj. ill-boding. Phr. auspicium melioris aevi[Lat][obs3]. 513. Oracle.— N. oracle; prophet, prophesier, seer, soothsayer, augur, fortune teller, crystal gazer[obs3], witch, geomancer[obs3], aruspex[obs3]; aruspice[obs3], haruspice[obs3]; haruspex; ...
— Roget's Thesaurus

... tear, my gentlest love, Be hush'd that struggling sigh; Nor seasons, day, nor fate shall prove More fix'd, more true than I. Hush'd be that sigh, be dry that tear; Cease boding doubt, cease anxious ...
— Among the Great Masters of Music - Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians • Walter Rowlands

... of the sun, and a llama swathed in a red garment was the Peruvian sacrifice to fire (Garcia, Or. de los Indios, lib. iv. caps. 16, 19). On the other hand the war quipus, the war wampum, and the war paint were all of this hue, boding their sanguinary significance. The word for fire in the language of the Delawares, Nanticokes, and neighboring tribes puzzles me. It is taenda or tinda. This is the Swedish word taenda, from whose root comes our tinder. Yet it is found in vocabularies ...
— The Myths of the New World - A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America • Daniel G. Brinton

... wilt thou kill me with thy boding fears? Why, oh Maecenas, why? Before thee lies a train of happy years: Yes, nor the gods nor I Could brook that thou shouldst first be laid in dust, Who art my stay, ...
— Horace • Theodore Martin


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