forbode

Etymology 1

From Middle English forbode, forbod, from Old English forbod (“a forbidding, prohibition”), from Proto-Germanic *frabudą (“prohibition”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“to be awake, fully perceive”), equivalent to for- + bode. Cognate with Dutch verbod, German Verbot, Danish forbud, Swedish förbud. More at forbid.

noun

1. (archaic) A forbidding, a prohibition; a command forbidding a thing.
   God's/The Lord's forbode
   So Moses himself explaineth it in the words here folowing, and in v. 13. 22. 27. commandements ]or, charges: meaning prohibitions, or forbodes. For God commandeth both to eschew evil, and to doe good. 1621, Henry Ainsworth, Annotations Upon the First Book of Moses, Called Genesis, source: Leviticus, Ch. IIII
   Thus Cloudesle cleft the apple in two, That many a man might see; "Over God's forbode," said the king, "That thou shoot at me!" 1894, Reginald Brimley Johnson, Popular British Ballads, Ancient and Modern, page 142
   FIRST SHEPHERD. God's forbode thou spare't and thou drink every deal.⁷ ⁷ God's forbode ... deal God forbid (literally "God's forbidding") that you refrain from drinking even if you drink it all. 2012, The Broadview Anthology of Medieval Drama, The Towneley Plays: The First Shepherds' Play (translated from Middle English into English), page 153

Etymology 2

From Middle English [Term?], from Old English forbēad/forbudon, past tense forms of forbēodan (“to forbid”). More at forbid.

verb

1. obsolete simple past of forbid.

Etymology 3

verb

1. Alternative form of forebode