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A foreboding; an omen. [Obs.] "Abodements must not now affright us." Shak.

An academy. [Poetic] Shak.

One of the processes of the shell which project inwards and unite with one another, in the thorax of many Crustacea.

Intent. [Obs.] Spenser.

n omen; a prognostic. [Obs.] This foolish, dreaming, superstitious girl Makes all these bodements. Shak.

Means of forming a decision. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Deprivation of rank or office; degradation. [R.] Milton.

Diademed. [R.]

The act of foreboding; the thing foreboded.

The act of incommoded. [Obs.] Cheyne.

To behave ill; -- with a reflexive pronoun; as, to misdemean one's self.

One guilty of a misdemeanor. Sydney Smith.

Ill behavior; evil conduct; fault. Shak.

See Wallaby.

The zooids of a compound anthozoan, collectively.

, judicially or by a public process; - - with of; as, to accuse one of a high crime or misdemeanor. Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me. Acts xxiv. 13. We are accused of having persuaded Austria and Sardinia to lay down their arms. Macaulay.

ct; a thing done; a deed; an enterprise. (pl.): Habitual deeds; hence, conduct; behavior; demeanor. The Lord is a Good of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed. 1 Sam. ii. 3.

To offend by some manifestation of disrespect; to insult to the face by demeanor or language; to treat with marked incivility. How can any one imagine that the fathers would have dared to affront the wife of Aurelius Addison.

The peculiar look, appearance, and bearing of a person; mien; demeanor; as, the air of a youth; a heavy air; a lofty air. "His very air." Shak.

Former; sometime. [Obs.] They mourned their ancient leader lost. Pope. Ancient demesne (Eng. Law), a tenure by which all manors belonging to the crown, in the reign of William the Conqueror, were held. The numbers, names, etc., of these were all entered in a book called Domesday Book. -- Ancient lights (Law), windows…