a. [f. BODE sb.2 + -FUL. A modern formation (not in Todd, Richardson, or Craig, 1847) very frequent in modern poets and essayists.] Full of presage, boding, ominous.
1813. Scott, Rokeby, VI. xxi. Over Redesdale it came, As bodeful as their beacon-flame.
1832. Fraser’s Mag., VI. 392. The pause was bodeful.
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., I I. III. iii. 55. A sign and wonder; visible to the whole world; bodeful of much.
1870. Lowell, Among My Books, Ser. I. (1873), 186. The voice of the bodeful bird.
