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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case; "Can you conceive of him as the president?" [syn: imagine, conceive of, ideate, envisage]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb (-aged; -aging) Etymology: French envisager, from en- + visage face Date: 1660 1. to view or regard in a certain way <envisages the slum as a hotbed of crime> 2. to have a mental picture of especially in advance of realization <envisages an entirely new system of education> Synonyms: see think

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. 1 have a mental picture of (a thing or conditions not yet existing). 2 contemplate or conceive, esp. as possible or desirable. 3 archaic a face (danger, facts, etc.). b look in the face of. Derivatives: envisagement n. Etymology: F envisager (as EN-(1), VISAGE)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(envisages, envisaging, envisaged) If you envisage something, you imagine that it is true, real, or likely to happen. He envisages the possibility of establishing direct diplomatic relations in the future... He had never envisaged spending the whole of his working life in that particular job... Personally, I envisage them staying together. = imagine, envision VERB: V n, V -ing, V n -ing, also V that

Moby Thesaurus

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