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单词 envisage
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envisagev.

Brit. /ᵻnˈvɪzɪdʒ/, /ɛnˈvɪzɪdʒ/, U.S. /ənˈvɪzɪdʒ/, /ɛnˈvɪzɪdʒ/
Etymology: < French envisage-r, < en- (see en- prefix1) + visage visage n., face.
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).
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