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envisage - 4 dictionary results

en⋅vis⋅age

[en-viz-ij]
–verb (used with object), -aged, -ag⋅ing.
1. to contemplate; visualize: He envisages an era of great scientific discoveries.
2. Archaic. to look in the face of; face.

Origin:
1810–20; < F envisager. See en- 1 , visage


en⋅vis⋅age⋅ment, noun


1. picture, imagine, conceive, envision.
en·vis·age   (ěn-vĭz'ĭj)   
tr.v.   en·vis·aged, en·vis·ag·ing, en·vis·ag·es
  1. To conceive an image or a picture of, especially as a future possibility: envisaged a world at peace.
  2. To consider or regard in a certain way.

[French envisager : Old French en-, in; see en-1 + Old French visage, face; see visage.]

Envisage

En*vis"age\ (?; 48), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Envisaged (?; 48); p. pr. & vb. n. Envisaging.] [F. envisager; pref. en- (L. in) + visage face, visage. See Visage.] To look in the face of; to apprehend; to regard. [R.] --Keats.

From the very dawn of existence the infant must envisage self, and body acting on self. --McCosh.
Language Translation for : envisage
Spanish: prever,
German: ins Auge fassen,
Japanese: 心に描く

envisage 
1820, from Fr. envisager "look in the face of," from en- "cause to" + visage "face."
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