Definitions for: Bode


[v] indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news"



Webster (1913) Definition: Bode, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Boded; p. pr. & vb. n.
Boding.] [OE. bodien, AS. bodian to announce, tell from bod
command; akin to Icel. bo?a to announce, Sw. b[*a]da to
announce, portend. [root]89. See Bid.]
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. --Goldsmith.

Good onset bodes good end. --Spenser.


Bode, v. i.
To foreshow something; to augur.

Whatever now The omen proved, it boded well to you.
--Dryden.

Syn: To forebode; foreshadow; augur; betoken.


Bode, n.
1. An omen; a foreshadowing. [Obs.]

The owl eke, that of death the bode bringeth.
--Chaucer.

2. A bid; an offer. [Obs. or Dial.] --Sir W. Scott


Bode, n. [AS. boda; akin to OFries. boda, AS. bodo, OHG.
boto. See Bode, v. t.]
A messenger; a herald. --Robertson.


Bode, n. [See Abide.]
A stop; a halting; delay. [Obs.]


Bode, imp. & p. p. from Bide.
Abode.

There that night they bode. --Tennyson.


Bode, p. p. of Bid.
Bid or bidden. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate

See Also: bespeak, foreshow, indicate, point, signal, threaten

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