misbode

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English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ bode.

Verb

misbode (third-person singular simple present misbodes, present participle misboding, simple past and past participle misboded)

  1. To sense or foreshadow impending disaster.
    • 1722, Richard Lucas, Sermons on several occasions and subjects - Volume 1, page 287:
      So, on the other hand, when the Day of Grace is set, 'tis easy to imagine how much that Conscience' that now misbodes and condemns us, will be filled with greater and intolerable Despair ;
    • 1869, George Ornsby, The Correspondence of John Cosin, D.D.:
      My only desire to be with you, if possibly I could, is to knowe what you must not or dare not write, for I misbode some greate matter.
  2. To foreshadow the future incorrectly.
    • 1983, Aryeh Kaplan, The Aryeh Kaplan Reader: The Gift He Left Behind, →ISBN:
      This was similar to the Rambam's comment that the prophets would be misboded when they would want to attain prophecy, suggesting a link between davening and the prophetic state.

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