envisage
See also: envisagé
English
editEtymology
editFrom French envisager, from en (“in”) + visage (“visage”); see English visage.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editenvisage (third-person singular simple present envisages, present participle envisaging, simple past and past participle envisaged)
- To conceive or see something within one's mind; to imagine or envision.
- 1860, James McCosh, The Intuitions of the Mind Inductively Investigated:
- From the very dawn of existence the infant must envisage self, and body acting on self.
- 1964 April, G. Freeman Allen, “The BRB shows traders the Liner train prototypes”, in Modern Railways, page 262:
- The prototype Liner train vehicles on show at Marylebone were not of the ultimate pattern either, for their wagon platform length is 42½ft, whereas 62½ft as envisaged as standard.
Related terms
editTerms related to envisage
Translations
editto conceive or see something within in one's mind
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Further reading
edit- “envisage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “envisage”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
French
editVerb
editenvisage
- inflection of envisager:
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