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misbode

verb

Etymology

From mis- + bode.

  1. inherited from *bʰewdʰ-✻
  2. inherited from *budą✻ — “message; offer”
  3. inherited from *bod✻ — “command, mandate, order”
  4. inherited from bod — “command, edict, order”
  5. inherited from bod — “foreboding, omen; message, report; command, edict; (Christianity) commandment; etc.”
  6. inherited from *bʰewdʰ-✻ — “to be awake; to be aware”
  7. inherited from *budōną✻ — “to announce, proclaim; to call, summon”
  8. inherited from *bodōn✻ — “to announce, proclaim; to call, summon”
  9. inherited from bodian — “to announce, proclaim, tell; to foretell, prophesy; to preach; etc.”
  10. inherited from boden
  11. prefixed as misbode — “mis + bode”

Definitions

  1. To sense or foreshadow impending disaster.

    • So, on the other hand, when the Day of Grace is set, 'tis easy to imagine how much that Conscience' that now misbodes and condemns us, will be filled with greater and intolerable Despair ;
    • My only desire to be with you, if possibly I could, is to knowe what you must not or dare not write, for I misbode some greate matter.

  2. To foreshadow the future incorrectly.

    • This was similar to the Rambam's comment that the prophets would be misboded when they would want to attain prophecy, suggesting a link between davening and the prophetic state.

The neighborhood

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