Forbode

Quick meaning: Forbode is a noun meaning obsolete simple past of forbid.

Meaning

obsolete simple past of forbid.

More Meanings

1. Alternative form of forebode.
2. (archaic) A forbidding, a prohibition; a command forbidding a thing.

Example Sentences

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!"

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.

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.

Word Forms

• forbodes
• forbod
• forboding
• forboded

Related Words

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