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envisage, v.|ɛnˈvɪzɪdʒ|
[a. Fr. envisage-r, f. en- (see en-1) + visage visage, face.]
1. trans. To look in the face of; fig. to face (danger, etc.); to look straight at.
1820Keats Hyperion ii. 204 To envisage circumstance, all calm, That is the top of sovereignty. 1823New Monthly Mag. VII. 328 Envisaging his fate With regal valour. 1879G. Meredith Egoist II. v. 98 Must I recognize the bitter truth?..I have envisaged it.
2. To obtain a mental view of, set before the mind's eye; to contemplate; chiefly, to view or regard under a particular aspect.
1837Herschel in Babbage Bridgew. Treat. App. i. 246 Envisaging the case algebraically. 1837Jerrold in New Monthly Mag. LI. 317 We could not perfectly envisage the atrocity. 1845–6Trench Huls. Lect. Ser. ii. vi. 238 Men continually envisaged the highest benefits which their souls could attain. 1853De Morgan in Graves Life Sir W. R. Hamilton iii. (1889) 443 If he [Argand] really envisaged the logarithmic property of the angles, he made a most decisive step. 1855Ess. Intuit. Morals 16 In whatever way we envisaged the moral attributes of God.
b. Philos. To perceive by intuition.
1860Mansel Prolegom. Log. iv. 116 note, I have availed myself of the term envisage, as the best English equivalent that has yet been proposed to the German anschauen. 18..McCosh (Ogilv.), From the very dawn of existence the infant must envisage self, and body acting on self.
3. Of an object: To present itself under a particular aspect. rare.
1884Pall Mall G. 10 Oct. 5/1 The New England summer as it envisaged itself to the eyes of Thoreau.
Hence enˈvisagement, the action of presenting (an object) to one's own consciousness. enˈvisaging vbl. n., the action of the vb. envisage.
1877E. Caird Philos. Kant ii. viii. 365 This imaginative envisagement of the categories. 1883W. Smart Disciple Plato 37 It is the envisaging of the one idea. |