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forbode

noun

Etymology

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.

  1. derived from *bʰewdʰ-✻
  2. inherited from *frabudą✻
  3. inherited from forbod
  4. inherited from forbode

Definitions

  1. A forbidding, a prohibition

    A forbidding, a prohibition; a command forbidding a thing.

    • God's/The Lord's forbode
    • 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.
    • 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!"

  2. obsolete simple past of forbid.

  3. Alternative form of forebode.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA