Obs. [Extended form of BODE v.1: see -EN. Much used by P. Holland.] = BODE v.1
1561. Daus, trans. Bullinger on Apoc. (1573), 19 b. Any euill or fearful spirit, bodening any misfortune.
1600. Holland, Livy, VII. 270. I dread to boden what it may import. Ibid., xxix. 736. As if they bodened and foretokened by their arrival that they were come for a new pillage.