forbode

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English

Etymology 1

From Middle English forbode, forbod, from Old English forbod (“a forbidding, prohibition”), from Proto-Germanic *frabudą (“prohibition”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“to be awake, fully perceive”), equivalent to for- +‎ bode. Cognate with Dutch verbod, German Verbot, Danish forbud, Swedish förbud. More at forbid.

Alternative forms

• forbod

Noun

forbode (plural forbodes)

1. (archaic) A forbidding, a prohibition; a command forbidding a thing.

   God's/The Lord's forbode

   • 1621, Henry Ainsworth, Annotations Upon the First Book of Moses, Called Genesis, Leviticus, Ch. IIII:

     So Moses himself explaineth it in the words here folowing, and in v. 13. 22. 27.   commandements ]or, charges: meaning prohibitions, or forbodes. For God commandeth both to eschew evil, and to doe good.

   • 1894, Reginald Brimley Johnson, Popular British Ballads, Ancient and Modern, page 142:

     Thus Cloudesle cleft the apple in two,

     That many a man might see;

     "Over God's forbode," said the king,

     "That thou shoot at me!"

   • 2012, The Broadview Anthology of Medieval Drama, The Towneley Plays: The First Shepherds' Play (translated from Middle English into English), page 153:

     FIRST SHEPHERD. God's forbode thou spare't and thou drink every deal.⁷

     ⁷ God's forbode ... deal   God forbid (literally "God's forbidding") that you refrain from drinking even if you drink it all.

Etymology 2

From Middle English, from Old English forbēad/forbudon, past tense forms of forbēodan (“to forbid”). More at forbid.

Verb

forbode

1. obsolete simple past of forbid.

Etymology 3

Verb

forbode (third-person singular simple present forbodes, present participle forboding, simple past and past participle forboded)

1. Alternative form of forebode

Translations

forebode — see forebode

References

• forbode at OneLook Dictionary Search

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• (of past participle) forbydd, forbydt

Adjective

forbode

1. neuter singular of forboden

Verb

forbode

1. past participle of forby
2. past participle of forbyde