forbode.
A forbidding, a prohibition; a command forbidding a thing.
Meaning & usage
A forbidding, a prohibition; a command forbidding a thing.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English forbode, forbod, from Old English forbod (“a forbidding, prohibition”), from Proto-Germanic *frabudą (“prohibition”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“to be awake, fully perceive”), equivalent to for- + bode. Cognate with Dutch verbod, German Verbot, Danish forbud, Swedish förbud. More at forbid.
obsolete simple past of forbid.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English [Term?], from Old English forbēad/forbudon, past tense forms of forbēodan (“to forbid”). More at forbid.
Alternative form of forebode.
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