From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Envisage \En*vis"age\ (?; 48), verb (used with an object) [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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
verb
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}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
99 Moby Thesaurus words for "envisage": admit, affront, anticipate, assimilate, behold, brave, breast, bring before, bring forward, bring up, call to mind, call up, challenge, complete, comprehend, comprise, conceive, confront, confront with, conjure up, contain, contemplate, count in, cover, dare, defy, dread, embody, embrace, encircle, enclose, encompass, encounter, envision, expect, externalize, face, face with, fancy, feature, fill, fill in, fill out, forecast, foreglimpse, foresee, foretaste, front, grasp, have in mind, have in view, hold, hope, image, imagine, include, incorporate, just see, lay before, look ahead, look beyond, look forward to, look upon, materialize, meditate, meet, meet squarely, number among, objectify, occupy, picture, place before, predict, present to, presume, put it to, realize, receive, reckon among, reckon in, reckon with, regard, represent, see, see ahead, see beforehand, set before, stem, summon up, survey, take for granted, take in, take into account, take into consideration, take up, think, view, vision, visualize
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