[f. BODE v.1 + -ING2.] That bodes; presaging, portending, ominous.
1593. Shaks., Ven. & Ad., 647. My boding heart pants, beats, and takes no rest. Ibid. (1594), Rich. III., V. iii. 228. The sweetest sleepe, And fairest boading Dreames.
1702. Rowe, Amb. Step-Moth., I. i. 434. Spight of my boding fears.
a. 1771. Gray, Poems (1775), 53. No boding Maid of skill divine Art thou.
1785. Cowper, Task, I. 205. The boding owl That hails the rising moon.
1824. W. Irving, T. Trav., II. 257. Listening to the boding cry of the tree toad.
Hence Bodingly adv.
1839. Lowell, Summ. Storm, Poet. Wks. (1879), 81. All is so bodingly still.
1866. Motley, Dutch Rep., IV. iv. 619. Sorrowfully and bodingly Mansfeld withdrew to consult again.
