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Bode   /boʊd/   Listen
noun
Bode  n.  
1.
An omen; a foreshadowing. (Obs.) "The owl eke, that of death the bode bringeth."
2.
A bid; an offer. (Obs. or Dial.)


Bode  n.  A messenger; a herald.


Bode  n.  A stop; a halting; delay. (Obs.)


verb
Bode  v. t.  (past & past part. boded; pres. part. boding)  To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend to presage; to foreshow. "A raven that bodes nothing but mischief." "Good onset bodes good end."


Bode  v. i.  To foreshow something; to augur. "Whatever now The omen proved, it boded well to you."
Synonyms: To forebode; foreshadow; augur; betoken.


Bode  past, past part.  (past & past part. from Bide) Abode. "There that night they bode."


Bode  past part.  Bid or bidden. (Obs.)





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"Bode" Quotes from Famous Books



... I silently thanked the Holy Father and the King of Denmark from the bottom of our hearts. We bode an affectionate farewell to the strange master, and to cheer him I promised him seriously to think over his friendly advice with regard to my career ...
— My Life, Volume I • Richard Wagner
... secret swelling of the waves of war. He too it was, when Caesar's light was quenched, For Rome had pity, when his bright head he veiled In iron-hued darkness, till a godless age Trembled for night eternal; at that time Howbeit earth also, and the ocean-plains, And dogs obscene, and birds of evil bode Gave tokens. Yea, how often have we seen Etna, her furnace-walls asunder riven, In billowy floods boil o'er the Cyclops' fields, And roll down globes of fire and molten rocks! A clash of arms through all the heaven was heard By Germany; ...
— The Georgics • Virgil
... "Prayer," roused a lively interest in the question as to whether prayer is decadent among the Jews. Professor Albert H. Lybyer lectured on "Jews as the Transmitters of Culture from the Moslems to the Christians"; Professor Boyd H. Bode discussed "What the Jew Contributes to American Ideals," and Dr. A. R. Vail spoke on "The Influence of the Hebrew Prophets as the ...
— The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915 • Various
... Mobile nigger," continued the old man, an I'll show you a nigger dat's marked for de chain-gang. Hit may be de fote er de fif' er July, er hit may be de twelf' er Jinawerry, but w'en a Mobile nigger gits in my naberhood right den an' dar trubble sails in an' 'gages bode fer de season. I speck I'm ez fon' er deze Nunited States ez de nex' man w'at knows dat de Buro is busted up; but long ez Remus kin stan' on his hin' legs no Mobile nigger can't flip inter dis town longer no Wes' P'int 'schushun an' boss 'roun' 'mong de cullud fokes. Dat's me, up an' down, an' I ...
— Uncle Remus • Joel Chandler Harris
... An he had been a dog that should have howled thus they would have hanged him: and I pray God, his bad voice bode no mischief! I had as lief have heard the night-raven, come what plague could have come ...
— Much Ado About Nothing • William Shakespeare [Knight edition]


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