forbode

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The oppressive pressure, Raffles noted, “seemed to forbode an earthquake.”

From Scientific American • Mar. 1, 2013

The lyrics she has written in 1940 forbode Millay-things probably to come.

From Time Magazine Archive

When it appears to a person in the churchyard, particularly to the grave-digger, it is said to forbode the death of a child that shall be next laid in the earth.”

From Ecclesiastical Curiosities by Various

But already I forbode the future, they will let us languish and perish, and then lament that they did not lend us assistance sooner.

From The Rebellion in the Cevennes, an Historical Novel Vol. I. by Tieck, Ludwig

And the emptied city cries aloud, while its booty is wasted amid confused clamors; verily I fearfully forbode heavy calamities.

From Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes by Buckley, Theodore Alois