Obs. 6–7 also aboad(e. [f. ABODE sb.2, on the analogy of the simple vb. bode (OE. bodian) f. the sb. bode (OE. bod). OE. had the primitive vb. beódan, ME. BEDE, pa. pple. boden, the sb. bod, ME. BODE, and its deriv. vb. bod-ian, mod. E. to BODE; also the deriv. vb. abeódan, ME. ABEDE, pa. pple. aboden; whence at a later time the prec. sb. and this vb.]
1. trans. To presage, prognosticate, be ominous of, BODE, FOREBODE.
1593. Shaks., 3 Hen. VI., V. vi. 45. The Owle shriek’d at thy birth, an euill signe, The Night Crow cry’de, aboding lucklesse time. Ibid. (1603), Henry VIII., I. i. 93. This tempest Dashing the Garment of this Peace, aboaded The sodaine breach on’t.
1603. Greenwey, Tacitus, Ann. (1622), III. ii. 67. The which when Piso perceiued, to aboade his vtter destruction.
1665. J. Spencer, Prodigies, 83. Lest it should abode the running of that Vessel upon rocks.
2. intr. To be ominous.
1659. Hammond, On Psalm lix. 5. This abodes most sadly to Saul at this time.
1673. Lady’s Calling, II. § 4. 16. 30. No night raven or screech-owl can abode half so dismally as these domestic birds of prey.
