FOREBODE

v. n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To foretell.

2.
v.

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.

3.
v.

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

4.
n.

Prognostication; presage. [Obs.]

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