▪ I. boding, vbl. n.
(ˈbəʊdɪŋ)
[f. bode v.1 + -ing1.]
† 1. Annunciation, proclamation, preaching. Obs.
| c 1000 Ags. Gosp. Matt. xii. 41 Hiᵹ dydon dædbote on Ionas bodunge. c 1160 Hatton G. ibid., Bodiunge. c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 89 Godspelles bodunge. |
2. Premonition, presentiment; concr. prognostic, omen, portent.
| 1297 R. Glouc. 428 Þe taylede sterre, þat gret bodynge ys. 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xviii. i. (1495) 737 Beestes haue redynesse of wytte in bodynge of chaungynge of tyme and wedders. 1555 Harpsfield Divorce Hen. VIII (1878) 280 A sorrowful boding of the..mischief that..did afterward chance. 1768 Goldsm. Good-n. Man v. i, I have had some boding of it these ten days. 1810 Wordsw. Scenery Lakes (1823) 115 A Shepherd accustomed to watch all mountain bodings. |
3. Prediction, prophecy (generally of evil).
| 1668 Temple Let. Wks. 1731 II. 169 Too much entertained with ill Bodings and Complaints. 1817 Coleridge Sibyl. Leaves (1862) 188 Better fate be thine And mock my boding! 1833 H. Martineau Brooke F. iv. 54 Norton..would listen to no evil bodings. |
▪ II. boding, ppl. a.
(ˈbəʊdɪŋ)
[f. bode v.1 + -ing2.]
That bodes; presaging, portending, ominous.
| 1593 Shakes. Ven. & Ad. 647 My boding heart pants, beats, and takes no rest. 1594 ― Rich. III, v. iii. 228 The sweetest sleepe, And fairest boading Dreames. 1702 Rowe Amb. Step-Moth. i. i. 434 Spight of my boding fears. a 1771 Gray Poems (1775) 53 No boding Maid of skill divine Art thou. 1785 Cowper Task i. 205 The boding owl That hails the rising moon. 1824 W. Irving T. Trav. II. 257 Listening to the boding cry of the tree toad. |
Hence ˈbodingly adv.
| 1811 Shelley St. Irvyne i, They bodingly presag'd destruction and woe. 1839 Lowell Summ. Storm Poet. Wks. (1879) 81 All is so bodingly still. 1866 Motley Dutch Rep. iv. iv. 619 Sorrowfully and bodingly Mansfeld withdrew to consult again. |