bodeful, a.
(ˈbəʊdfʊl)
[f. bode n.2 + -ful. A modern formation (not in Todd, Richardson, or Craig 1847) very frequent in modern poets and essayists.]
Full of presage, boding, ominous.
| 1813 Scott Rokeby vi. xxi, Over Redesdale it came, As bodeful as their beacon-flame. 1832 Fraser's Mag. VI. 392 The pause was bodeful. 1837 Carlyle Fr. Rev. I. i. iii. iii. 55 A sign and wonder; visible to the whole world; bodeful of much. 1870 Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. i. (1873) 186 The voice of the bodeful bird. |