2. Noun. A command forbidding a thing. ¹
3. Verb. (form of obsolete simple past tense forbid). ¹
4. Verb. To portend or foretell, especially of ill; to serve as a sign or ill omen. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Forbode
1. to forebode [v -BODED, -BODING, -BODES] - See also: forebode
Lexicographical Neighbors of Forbode
Literary usage of Forbode
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Lusiad: Or, The Discovery of India: an Epic Poem by Luís de Camões, William Julius Mickle (1809)
"Long, long endear'd by fellowship in woe, O'er their cold dust we give the tears
to flow; And in their hapless lot forbode our own, A foreign burial, ..."
2. Harper's Cyclopaedia of British and American Poetry edited by Epes Sargent (1882)
"Now Gilpin had a pleasant wit, Ami loved a timely joke ; And thus unto the
calender "I came because your horse would come: And, if I well forbode, ..."
3. The Vision of William Concerning Piers the Plowman: In Three Parallel Texts by William Langland (1886)
"570; Lordes forbode = it is the Lord's forbidding, ie the Lord forbid, io. 327.
Cf. b. 4. ... 548) has : ' I fende to Goddes forbode it shulde be so, ..."
4. Robin Hood: A Collection of All the Ancient Poems, Songs, and Ballads, Now by Joseph Ritson, Joseph Frank, Thomas Bewick (1832)
"Flee. fly. Flinders, splinters. Fone. foes, enemies. forbode. ... forbode '
prohibition or curse.' Florio, in his Italian dictionary, 1598, ..."
5. The Repressor of Over Much Blaming of the Clergy by Reginald Pecock (1860)
"... he schulde offre sacrificis in her cours, (which forbode is ... that bi
strengthe of eny] forbode in lewis lawe Cristen ..."
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