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forbode en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

From Middle English forbode, forbod, from Old English forbod (“a forbidding, prohibition”), from Proto-Germanic *frabudą (“prohibition”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“to be awake, fully perceive”), equivalent to for- + bode. Cognate with Dutch verbod, German Verbot, Danish forbud, Swedish förbud. More at forbid.

Meanings

1. (archaic) A forbidding, a prohibition; a command forbidding a thing.
   • God's/The Lord's forbode
   • Thus Cloudesle cleft the apple in two, That many a man might see; "Over God's forbode," said the king, "That thou shoot at me!" 1894, Reginald Brimley Johnson, Popular British Ballads, Ancient and Modern, page 142:
   • FIRST SHEPHERD. God's forbode thou spare't and thou drink every deal.⁷ ⁷ God's forbode ... deal God forbid (literally "God's forbidding") that you refrain from drinking even if you drink it all. 2012, The Broadview Anthology of Medieval Drama, The Towneley Plays: The First Shepherds' Play (translated from Middle English into English), page 153
   • So Moses himself explaineth it in the words here folowing, and in v. 13. 22. 27. commandements ]or, charges: meaning prohibitions, or forbodes. For God commandeth both to eschew evil, and to doe good. 1621, Henry Ainsworth, Annotations Upon the First Book of Moses, Called Genesis, source: Leviticus, Ch. IIII:

Forms

forbode en · VERB · etymology 2

Etymology

From Middle English [Term?], from Old English forbēad/forbudon, past tense forms of forbēodan (“to forbid”). More at forbid.

Meanings

1. (form-of, obsolete, past) obsolete simple past of forbid.
   form of forbid

forbode en · VERB · etymology 3

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of forebode.
   alt of forebode

Forms