Word Meanings - BODEMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An omen; a prognostic. This foolish, dreaming, superstitious girl Makes all these bodements. Shak.

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• PROGNOSTICABLE
  Capable of being prognosticated or foretold. Sir T. Browne.
• PROGNOSTICATOR
  One who prognosticates; a foreknower or foreteller of a future course or event by present signs. Isa. xlvii. 13.
• DREAMINESS
  The state of being dreamy.
• DREAM
  Dan. & Sw. dröm; cf. G. trügen to deceive, Skr. druh to harm, hurt, try to hurt. AS. dreám joy, gladness, and OS. dr joy are, perh., different words; cf. Gr. 1. The thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary transactions, which occupy the
• DREAMER
  1. One who dreams. 2. A visionary; one lost in wild imaginations or vain schemes of some anticipated good; as, a political dreamer.
• THESE
  The plural of this. See This.
• SUPERSTITIOUS
  1. Of or pertaining to superstition; proceeding from, or manifesting, superstition; as, superstitious rites; superstitious observances. 2. Evincing superstition; overscrupulous and rigid in religious observances; addicted to superstition; full
• MAKESHIFT
  That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot.
• FOOLISHNESS
  1. The quality of being foolish. 2. A foolish practice; an absurdity. The preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness. 1 Cor. i. 18.
• DREAMILY
  As if in a dream; softly; slowly; languidly. Longfellow.
• PROGNOSTIC
  Indicating something future by signs or symptoms; foreshowing; aiding in prognosis; as, the prognostic symptoms of a disease; prognostic signs.
• DREAMLESS
  Free from, or without, dreams. Camden. -- Dream"less*ly, adv.
• DREAMY
  Abounding in dreams or given to dreaming; appropriate to, or like, dreams; visionary. "The dreamy dells." Tennyson.
• DREAMLAND
  An unreal, delightful country such as in sometimes pictured in dreams; region of fancies; fairyland. builds a bridge from dreamland for his lay. Lowell.
• FOOLISH
  1. Marked with, or exhibiting, folly; void of understanding; weak in intellect; without judgment or discretion; silly; unwise. I am a very foolish fond old man. Shak. 2. Such as a fool would do; proceeding from weakness of mind or silliness;
• FOOLISHLY
  In a foolish manner.
• PROGNOSTICATE
  To indicate as future; to foretell from signs or symptoms; to prophesy; to foreshow; to predict; as, to prognosticate evil. Burke. I neither will nor can prognosticate To the young gaping heir his father's fate. Dryden. Syn. -- To foreshow;
• DREAMINGLY
  In a dreamy manner.
• DREAMFUL
  Full of dreams. " Dreamful ease." Tennyson. -- Dream"ful*ly, adv.
• PROGNOSTICATION
  1. The act of foreshowing or foretelling something future by present signs; prediction. 2. That which foreshows; a foretoken. Shak.
• UNDREAMED; UNDREAMT
  Not dreamed, or dreamed of; not thof. Unpathed waters, undreamed shores. Shak.
• DAYDREAMER
  One given to draydreams.
• DAYDREAM
  A vain fancy speculation; a reverie; a castle in the air; unfounded hope. Mrs. Lambert's little daydream was over. Thackeray.
• JOHNADREAMS
  A dreamy, idle fellow. Shak.
• ADREAMED
  Visited by a dream; -- used in the phrase, To be adreamed, to dream.