Defn: An ancestor. See Forbear.
FOREBODE
Fore*bode", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Foreboded; p. pr. & vb. n.
Foreboding.] Etym: [AS. forebodian; fore + bodian to announce. See
Bode v. t.]
1. To foretell.
2. To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly. His heart forebodes a mystery. Tennyson. Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation, as the certain consequence of Cæsar's death. Middleton. I have a sort of foreboding about him. H. James.
Syn. — To foretell; predict; prognosticate; augur; presage; portend; betoken.
FOREBODE
Fore*bode", v. i.
Defn: To fortell; to presage; to augur.
If I forebode aright. Hawthorne.
FOREBODE
Fore*bode", n.
Defn: Prognostication; presage. [Obs.]
FOREBODEMENT
Fore*bode"ment, n.