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Forbode

noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A forbidding, a prohibition; a command forbidding a thing. archaic

    "God's/The Lord's forbode"

Verb
  1. 1
    obsolete simple past of forbid. form-of, obsolete, past
  2. 2
    Alternative form of forebode. alt-of, alternative

Etymology

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.

Etymology 2

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

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