[f. BODE v.1 + -MENT (Romanic suffix).]

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  1.  An omen, augury, presage.

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1605.  Shaks., Macb., IV. i. 96. Who can impresse the Forrest, bid the Tree Vnfixe his earth-bound Root? Sweet boadments, good.

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1613.  Bp. Hall, Holy Panegyr., 61. It was a iust bodement of his future greatnesse.

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  2.  Foreboding, presentiment.

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1642.  Life G. Villiers, in Harl. Misc. (Malh.), V. 321. Whether he had never any secret bodements in his mind?

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1820.  H. Coleridge, Poems, II. 303. Bodements sweet of immortality.

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  † 3.  Signification. Obs. rare.

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1658.  W. Burton, Itin. Anton., 200. Faustinus in the Latine … having the bodement or signification of felicity, or favour.

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  4.  Prophecy, prediction, prognostication.

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1826.  Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. II. (1863), 368. The blessed sun himself may have been rash enough to contradict her bodements.

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1833.  Coleridge, Poems, II. 367. Her deep prophetic bodements.

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