bodement
English
Etymology
Noun
bodement (plural bodements)
- (obsolete) An omen; a prognostic.
- c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:
- This foolish, dreaming, superstitious girl
Makes all these bodements.
References
- “bodement”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.