Obs. [f. ABODE v. + -MENT, an early instance of a native vb. with this suffix.] A foreboding, presage, or omen.
1593. Shaks., 3 Hen. VI., IV. vii. 13. Tush man, aboadments must not now affright vs.
1651. Reliquiæ Wottonianæ, 119. The Lord Bishop … took the freedom to ask whether he had never any secret abodement in his minde.
1665. J. Spencer, Prodigies, 179. But where matters ungrateful fall before us, we usually serve our little hatreds, by deriving upon them the Opinion of being ill abodements.
