Foreboded

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Forebode \Fore*bode"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Foreboded}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Foreboding}.] [AS. forebodian; fore + bodian to
     announce. See {Bode} v. t.]
     1. To foretell.
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     2. To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an
        inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to
        happen; to augur despondingly.
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              His heart forebodes a mystery.        --Tennyson.
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              Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars
              and desolation, as the certain consequence of
              C[ae]sar's death.                     --Middleton.
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              I have a sort of foreboding about him. --H. James.
  
     Syn: To foretell; predict; prognosticate; augur; presage;
          portend; betoken.
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