[f. BODE v.1 + -ING1.]
† 1. Annunciation, proclamation, preaching. Obs.
c. 1000. Ags. Gosp., Matt. xii. 41. Hiʓ dydon dædbote on Ionas bodunge.
c. 1160. Hatton G., ibid., Bodiunge.
c. 1175. Lamb. Hom., 89. Godspelles bodunge.
2. Premonition, presentiment; concr. prognostic, omen, portent.
1297. R. Glouc., 428. Þe taylede sterre, þat gret bodynge ys.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XVIII. i. (1495), 737. Beestes haue redynesse of wytte in bodynge of chaungynge of tyme and wedders.
c. 1555. Harpsfield, Divorce Hen. VIII. (1878), 280. A sorrowful boding of the … mischief that … did afterward chance.
1768. Goldsm., Good-n. Man, V. i. I have had some boding of it these ten days.
1810. Wordsw., Scenery Lakes (1823), 115. A Shepherd accustomed to watch all mountain bodings.
3. Prediction, prophecy (generally of evil).
1668. Temple, Lett., Wks. 1731, II. 169. Too much entertained with ill Bodings and Complaints.
1817. Coleridge, Sibyl. Leaves (1862), 188. Better fate be thine And mock my boding!
1833. Ht. Martineau, Brooke Farm, iv. 54. Norton … would listen to no evil bodings.
