noun
Meaning 1
A forbidding, a prohibition; a command forbidding a thing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
Examples
- God's/The Lord's forbode
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Standard Lemma guide
forbode
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verb
Meaning 2
obsolete simple past of forbid.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, obsolete, past
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verb
Meaning 3
Alternative form of forebode.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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History
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.
From Middle English [Term?], from Old English forbēad/forbudon, past tense forms of forbēodan (“to forbid”). More at forbid.