▪ I. † misˈbode, n. Obs.
[Representing OE. *misbod, corresp. to misbéodan misbede: cf. bode n.2]
Wrong, offence.
| c 1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 79 He..þe ne þoleð and forebereð noht a misbode. c 1205 Lay. 11095 Al Rome he fordude þurh his muchele misbode. 1613 R. Cawdrey Table Alph., Misbode, wrong. [Hence in later Dicts.] |
▪ II. misˈbode, v. rare—1.
[mis-1 1.]
trans. To forebode (something evil).
| 1626 in Cosins' Corr. (Surtees) i. 89 My only desire to be with you..is to knowe what you must not or dare not write, for I misbode some great matter. |
So misˈboding vbl. n. and ppl. a.
| a 1659 Bp. Brownrig Serm. (1674) I. ii. 33 [He] forbids four sorts of Characters to be set upon a Signet, as misboding Characters. 1739 G. Lillo Arden of Feversham v, Her misboding sorrow for his absence Has almost made her frantic. 1819 Lingard Hist. Eng. II. xii. 69 With a misboding heart he obeyed the summons. 1825 Ibid. VI. iv. 239 The misbodings of fanaticism. |