Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To conceive an image or a picture of, especially as a future possibility.
- transitive verb To consider or regard in a certain way.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To look in the face of; face; view; regard; hence, to apprehend directly; perceive by intuition: sometimes, as a term of philosophy, equivalent to intuit.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To look in the face of; to apprehend; to regard.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
conceive or see something within one's mind. Toimagine orenvision .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A good measure which everybody can envisage is the little wooden coat hanger, with a wire hook on the top.
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It was natural in Mr. Morris to "envisage" the Greek heroic age in this way, but it would not be natural in most other writers.
Adventures Among Books Andrew Lang 1878
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Mr. Green's pupils could generally write in his own language, more or less, and could "envisage" things, as we said then, from his point of view.
Adventures Among Books Andrew Lang 1878
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"The programme I envisage would be 90% funded from the private sector," says Gingrich, who is really worried about the Chinese getting there first.
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Already, it's not impossible to envisage a situation where shop staff at struggling high street chains HMV, Peacocks and Clinton Cards join maids and receptionists at Jarvis Hotels and staff at Four Seasons care homes who are already – albeit indirectly and partially – employed by RBS.
If RBS takes stakes in its ailing debtors, who knows what George Osborne could end up owning? 2012
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Even with Saddam Hussein we could envisage places where Saddam Hussein could go into safe refuge, Mack said.
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Even with Saddam Hussein we could envisage places where Saddam Hussein could go into safe refuge, Mack said.
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Nevertheless I couldn't envisage running a Yes for Europe campaign without Peter Mandelson involved in some key way.
Tony Blair had 'secret group preparing for euro referendum' 2012
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Even with Saddam Hussein we could envisage places where Saddam Hussein could go into safe refuge, Mack said.
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The choice is whether or not vulnerable people are better protected by the current law, where the only safeguard is the threat of prosecution, or whether or not the stringent safeguards we envisage where two doctors look at it before the person has committed suicide, whether they provide better protection than the current law.
Assisted suicide should be legal, says major report to parliament 2012
oroboros commented on the word envisage
Synonym for envision.
July 10, 2007
randomname25 commented on the word envisage
Envisage and envision have subtly different meanings. Both mean to visualize, but envisage is generally used with real things, and envision is generally used with hypothetical things. Good explanation at link below:
http://www.grammarist.com/usage/envision-envisage/
June 24, 2011