Misbode

verb

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Verb
  1. 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 ;"

  2. 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."

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"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 ;"

Etymology

From mis- + bode.

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