单词 | envisage |
释义 | envisagev. 1. transitive. To look in the face of; figurative to face (danger, etc.); to look straight at. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (transitive)] > stare or gaze at > in the face to look (a person, etc.) in the facec1400 to stare (a person) in the face1510 to fix (a person) with one's eyes1792 envisage1820 fasten1870 impale1877 1820 J. Keats Hyperion: a Fragm. ii, in Lamia & Other Poems 178 To envisage circumstance, all calm, That is the top of sovereignty. 1823 New Monthly Mag. 7 328 Envisaging his fate With regal valour. 1879 G. Meredith Egoist II. v. 98 Must I recognize the bitter truth?..I have envisaged it. 2. a. To obtain a mental view of, set before the mind's eye; to contemplate; chiefly, to view or regard under a particular aspect. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > imagine or visualize [verb (transitive)] seeOE thinkOE bethinkc1175 devise1340 portraya1375 imagec1390 dreama1393 supposea1393 imaginea1398 conceive?a1425 fantasyc1430 purposea1513 to frame to oneselfa1529 'magine1530 imaginate1541 fancy1551 surmit?1577 surmise1586 conceit?1589 propose1594 ideate1610 project1612 figurea1616 forma1616 to call up1622 propound1634 edify1645 picture1668 create1679 fancify1748 depicture1775 vision1796 to conjure up1819 conjure1820 envisage1836 to dream up1837 visualize1863 envision1921 pre-visualize1969 1836 J. Herschel in C. Babbage 9th Bridgewater Treat. (1837) App. I. 211 Envisaging the case algebraically. 1837 Jerrold in New Monthly Mag. 51 317 We could not perfectly envisage the atrocity. 1846 R. C. Trench Christ Desire of All Nations vi. 115 Men continually envisaged the highest benefits which their souls could attain. 1853 A. De Morgan Let. 5 Feb. in R. P. Graves Life Sir W. R. Hamilton (1889) III. 443 If he [Argand] really envisaged the logarithmic property of the angles, he made a most decisive step. 1855 F. P. Cobbe Ess. Intuitive Morals I. 16 In whatever way we envisaged the moral attributes of God. b. Philosophy. To perceive by intuition. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > intuition > perceive by intuition [verb (transitive)] envisage1851 intuit1858 intue1860 noumenalize1872 sixth-sense1958 the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > epistemology > [verb (transitive)] structurate1664 envisage1851 cognizea1856 cognosce1874 structuralize1913 the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > idealism > [verb (transitive)] > elements of Kantian philosophy schematize1839 envisage1851 1851 H. L. Mansel Prolegomena Logica iv. 107 I have availed myself of the term envisage, as the best English equivalent that has yet been proposed to the German anschauen. 1860 J. McCosh Intuitions of Mind ii. i. 59 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. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > appearance or aspect > have (specific) appearance [verb (reflexive)] envisage1884 1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 10 Oct. 5/1 The New England summer as it envisaged itself to the eyes of Thoreau. Derivatives enˈvisagement n. the action of presenting (an object) to one's own consciousness. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > [noun] > act of imagining imagination1340 conceptiona1387 imaginingc1430 suppositiona1529 conceiving1559 picturing1562 conceiting1563 fancy1581 forgery1582 surmise1592 imagery1595 imaging1648 ideation1818 envisagement1877 visualizing1880 envisaging1883 visualization1883 envisioning1938 projecting1960 1877 E. Caird Crit. Acct. Philos. Kant ii. viii. 365 This imaginative envisagement of the categories. enˈvisaging n. the action of envisage v. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > [noun] > act of imagining imagination1340 conceptiona1387 imaginingc1430 suppositiona1529 conceiving1559 picturing1562 conceiting1563 fancy1581 forgery1582 surmise1592 imagery1595 imaging1648 ideation1818 envisagement1877 visualizing1880 envisaging1883 visualization1883 envisioning1938 projecting1960 1883 W. Smart Disciple Plato 37 It is the envisaging of the one idea. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1820 |
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