bodement

English

Etymology

From bode +‎ -ment.

Noun

bodement (plural bodements)

1. (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.

Anagrams

• entombed