forebode

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

FOREBO'DE, verb transitive 1. To foretell; to prognosticate. 2. To foreknow; to be prescient of; to feel a secret sense of something future; as, my heart forebodes a sad reverse.
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