forebodement (for bod ment)

[ foreboder (för-bö'der), n. One who forebodes or presages. foreclose He makes this difference to arise from the forecast and predetermination of the gods themselves. Add is on, Ancient Medals. The busy days of Spring drew near, That call'd for all the forecast of the year. Crabbe, Works, I. 103. 2. Foresight; prescience; prevision. The heart's forecast and prophecy Took form and life before my eye. Whittier, Mogg Megone, ii. The ultimate prosperity of the just, a erted and foretold by prophets and poets, is but a forecast of the doctrine of the survival of the fittest. E. D. Cope , Origin of the Fittest, p. 237. =Syn. 2. Prudence , Providence , etc. (see wisdom ); fore