Obs. [f. A-BEDE v., OE. abeód-an, pa. pple. a-boden, ‘to announce’; on the analogy of the simple sb. BODE, and its relation to the primitive beódan, boden: see next word.] An announcement, prediction, prognostication.
c. 1600. Chapman, Iliad (1857), XIII. 146. If even the best of Gods, High thund’ring Juno’s husband, stirs my spirit with true abodes.
1667. Decay of Chr. Piety, § 5. 196. That great unsensibleness many of us shew of what others groan under, is a very ominous abode.
1696. Ovington, Voyage to Surat. A superstitious fancy that mending old clothes in a morning is of very ill abode.
