A-bōde'1, pret.
pret. of abide.
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pret. of abide.
n. [From abide, pret. abode.] 1. Stay or continuance in a place for a longer or shorter time. And with her fled away without abode. Spencer. 2. A place of continuance; a dwelling; a habitation. We will come and make our abode with him. John xiv. 23. 3. An omen; a prognostication. [Obs.] High-thundering Juno's husband stirs my spirit with true abodes. Chapman.
[See BODE.] To foreshow. Shak.
To be an omen. Dryden.